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Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The official number of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases worldwide since the start of the epidemic passed the 1 million mark near the end of 1994—a fact that was covered in a six-sentence story on an inside page of The New York Times (January 4, 1995). Moreover, given the chronic underreporting and under-diagnosis in developing countries, the actual number of AIDS cases may be four times as high. The official statistics also do not reflect the millions of people who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but have yet to develop symptoms of AIDS. The situation is critical in sub-Saharan Africa, where the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 11 million adults and as many as 1 million children have been infected with HIV, and where basic infrastructure, financial, and managerial resources, as well as health-care personnel to deal with the catastrophe, are all extremely scarce.
Barney Cohen and James Trussell - Personal Name
0-309-58905-3
NONE
Management
English
1996
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