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How to Control AIDS in Africa |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Niels C. Sorrells |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,974 Words, 12,462 Characters |
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Now kill everyone there. Now do it again next year, the year after, and the year after that. Pretty soon, someone might notice. Such is the situation in sub-Saharan Africa, where about 2.2 million people died of AIDS in 1999, according to the United Nations. An additional 24.5 million in the region are infected with HIV or AIDS--71 percent of the world's total infections.
While the situation is gaining international attention, many AIDS activists believe its full scope is yet to be understood. They argue that, for too long, AIDS has been considered a health problem. For many developing nations, it is quickly becoming a security and stability problem, one that might someday draw the United States into a larger crisis.
"If we don't deal with AIDS, AIDS will ...
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...ho controls Congress and the White House in 2001.
"There is enough ownership in Congress to keep this alive," she says. But some, like Foote, wonder what it will take to direct the attention of the average American to the problem and its potentially global ramifications. "We're very quick to fall back into complacency," he says. "I'm not sure how we'll focus attention."
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