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Article: Art AIDS Africa.(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Fighting an epidemic with consumer dollars
AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa, with statistics showing that roughly 6,000 Africans die each day from this disease. When Dr. Shirley A. Harris went to visit her sister Folami Harris in Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2000, she was disturbed and unnerved by her sibling's account of the pervasiveness of the AIDS virus and the country's lack of resources and inability to educate the population about its prevention. Simple measures, such as the use of condoms, were not even considered.
"Seventy percent of the world's AIDS cases are in Africa. I didn't realize the impact of AIDS until I went there ...