Word: kigali
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease is spreading fast in Africa, where it was first detected in 1982, but is believed by some medical researchers to have appeared decades earlier. In Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, one test discovered AIDS exposure in 18% of the city's inhabitants. In Uganda, a study of more than 1,000 pregnant women in the capital city of Kampala showed that 13.6% carried the virus. While male victims outnumber female victims by 13 to 1 in the U.S., in Africa the disease appears to strike women and men in roughly equal numbers. The same holds true in Haiti...