I often wonder why I am investing so much time in South Africa and especially the Transkei region.
Stephen Lewis, who recently retired as U.N. special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, called for international pressure on the government to implement an ambitious anti-AIDS campaign.
“It is said that 900 men, women and children die every day in South Africa of AIDS-related illnesses. It’s Armageddon every 24 hours,” Lewis wrote in an opinion piece for South African newspapers. “Other than South Africa, every government in the high-prevalence countries is moving heaven and earth to keep its people alive.
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