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November 21, 2005
Meanwhile, AIDS continues to kill...
Meanwhile, an enormous number of people continue to become newly infected with HIV/AIDS. The new report for Sub-Saharan Africa is here. (Things are also getting worse in parts of Asia. But here's the graph that struck me, that I have been thinking about all day:
Forty percent of the women in Botswana attending antenatal clinics were HIV positive. Forty percent.
Thirty percent in South Africa. Twenty percent in Mozambique and Zimbabwe (which actually registered a decline).
These numbers are so horrific that I just can't get my head wrapped around them.
Posted by zeynep at November 21, 2005 07:43 PM