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Article: Science Scan Not HIV Alone But Lethal Gang- Of-Three Diseases Compound Mortality In Sub-Saharan Africa.(Brief Article)
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Editor's note: Science Scan is a roundup of recently published biotechnology-relevant research.
Sub-Saharan Africa is hostage to a lethal near-pandemic of HIV-1/AIDS infection and death. So what else is new?
A whistle-blowing paper is in The Lancet, dated June 22, 2002, titled: "HIV-1/AIDS and the control of other infectious diseases in Africa." Its authors are in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The article opened by warning: "HIV-1 has become a major endemic infection in Africa, with an unusually high potential to interact with other disorders, both through the generation ...