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I Die, but the Memory Lives onNevertheless, governments in Europe and the USA reacted quickly and resolutely to the new virus. Large-scale propaganda campaigns were organised, explaining clearly how the disease was being passed on. Every individual who had indulged in unprotected sex with a stranger was urged to undergo tests. The campaigns were successful, and the spread of the virus was curtailed. Indeed, the campaigns were so successful that most people in the industrialised world no longer consider HIV a potential threat. This is true not least of the younger generation. As a result, the number of those infected has again risen, most of all in the USA. The HIV epidemic is a catastrophe for Africa While the situation is largely under control in the OECD countries, the picture is much more gloomy in the rest of the world. It is most serious in Africa. There, the disease has spread like wildfire. UNAIDS, the UN organisation devoted to Aids, calculates that there are at least 30 million people testing HIV-positive in Africa. Almost 10 per cent of the adult population of sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to be infected ...» |
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