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Friday, July 12, 2002Earlier this month the United Nations asked for $507 million to buy food for people in the hardest-hit region, which includes Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique and is home to 60 million people. Of those people, about 12 million will suffer food shortages in the coming year. According to Martin Roth’s post those nations have the following HIV/AIDS rates: Malawi 15% Zambia 21.5% Lesotho 31% Zimbabwe 33.7% Swaziland 33.4% Mozambique 13% None of the Muslim countries make the list. Famine is always followed by pestilence. The body can’t fend off infection when it’s emaciated, even when given drugs to help. That’s why the solution to AIDS and other diseases in places like Africa is not likely to be found in just throwing money and drugs at them. posted by Sydney on 7/12/2002 05:30:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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