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Article: The Path of AIDS
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- The Washington Post
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- July 18, 1999
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AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa. In Harare,
Zimbabwe's capital, four out of every 10 adults are HIV-positive.
The effects of that are difficult to imagine -- impossible to
imagine, in fact, since the full force of the epidemic has yet to
hit. But it becomes clearer all the time that AIDS will have vast
and long-term consequences for many societies.
In the United States, fewer people are dying of AIDS, thanks to
new drug regimens. But even here the virus isn't defeated. Last
year in North America, there were some 44,000 newly reported
infections.
These are some of the gloomy tidings from Peter Piot, a Belgian