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AIDS in Southern Africa

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Correspondence to:
Ms Mary Crewe, Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa;
mcrewe@ccnet.up.ac.za

Keywords: AIDS; Southern Africa

Noerine Kaleeba, a well known AIDS activist from Uganda, recently told the story of how her mother produced the photograph of Noerine's primary school leaving class of 45 pupils and asked her "where are they now?". Five are still living. Forty are dead, the majority from AIDS. Other Africans tell similar stories of losing four or five of their siblings, friends, parents, and partners and of having to cope with rapidly increased families by taking in orphans. There are many other horror stories of the African epidemic—households headed by children, abandoned children, rejection, stigma, discrimination, racism, and the abuse of human rights due to AIDS. Perhaps President Mbeki was right when he asked "what is unique about African AIDS?".

What is unique about HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is that the epidemic has moved on a scale that is unprecedented in disease. It has cut its way through the fabric . . . [Full text of this article]