South Africa and the AIDS epidemic diagnosis
Abstract
I
n summer 2002, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa wondered what
he should do to contain the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) epidemic that had engulfed his country. One out of every nine
South Africans had Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS. The
disease had slashed South African life expectancy from 66 years to below
50, a level not seen since the late 1950s
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