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Apocalypse Now: HIV/AIDS in Africa Exceeds the Experts' Worst Predictions
Joan Stephenson, PhD
JAMA. 2000;284:556-557.
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Durban, South Africa—Not since the Black Death devastated medieval Europe has humankind observed infectious disease deaths on such a massive scale that a country's population has shrunk rather than grown. But that scenario is playing out again in the 21st century, with HIV/AIDS replacing bubonic plague as the killer, according to new data presented here at the XIII International AIDS Conference.
For the first time, this conference is taking place in Africa, the epicenter of the epidemic. And while it has been clear for some time that HIV/AIDS has stricken sub-Saharan Africa with unparalleled savagery, experts who thought themselves incapable of being shocked by high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and mortality are stunned by the latest figures documenting the impact the infection is having on this continent.
NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH
According to projections from a new study commissioned by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), by . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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