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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is AIDS more widespread than in Africa, where WHO estimates that 50,000 people already suffer from the disease and that at least 1 million more are infected with the virus. Said Bila Kapita, an AIDS expert from Kinshasa, Zaire: "Today we know that AIDS is almost everywhere in Africa, especially central Africa. The question is, Why does Africa seem to be such a hot spot?" No answer was forthcoming. In Africa, AIDS strikes men and women in nearly equal numbers and, Kapita said, seems to be primarily spread by heterosexual contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gloom in the Palais Des Congres | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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