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Africa:Overstating AIDS

Written bySokari Ekine

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Posted 12 April 2006 9:42 GMT

My Hearts in Accra comments on the presentation of AIDS in Africa and the tendency to misrepresent the actual figures… Africa is hurt in some complicated ways by the reinforcement of the equation “Africa = AIDS”…..How hard will we have to work to get people to understand what the crisis really is… and really isn’t?

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