Volume 50, Number 12 · July 17, 2003
AIDS in South Africa: The Invisible Cure
By Helen Epstein
HIV infection rates in South Africa's townships are among the highest in the world. Hundreds of people contract HIV every day in South Africa, most of them in the poor, often dangerous township communities of crowded tin and concrete shacks. By now, nearly everyone in South Africa knows how HIV is transmitted, and how to avoid it. The enduring mystery is why so many people do not.
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