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...metaphor for hopelessness, it's hard to equal the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty-four million of the area's people are HIV-positive--70% of the world's infected population. Thirteen million Africans have already died of AIDS, and 10 million more are expected to die within five years. In South Africa, 1 in 5 adults is infected; in Botswana the rate of infection is 1 in 3; in Zimbabwe it is 1 in 4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2003, AIDS-related deaths will slow population growth in some of these nations to zero...
...reason AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa so hard is that the public health system in many countries is inadequate to deal with even "conventional" disease, let alone a grinding juggernaut like AIDS. According to the World Bank, the region averages $34 per person annually in health-care spending--and far less in places like Nigeria and Kenya--compared with an average of $2,485 in developed countries like the U.S. Less than half the people in the area have access to clean water, and just over half of all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, polio and tetanus. The notion...
...company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will talk up this project, part of the Oracle Promises program, while also plugging the NIC and its sub-$500 price tag: "A computer every family can afford. A true bridge over the digital divide...
...intellectual escape route from the implications of his country's nightmare. Over the next decade, AIDS is expected to devour up to 20% of South Africa's national wealth. Half its population of 15-year-olds is expected to die of the disease. Far from a renaissance, sub-Saharan Africa is in the throes of a plague of medieval proportions. Even at 80% discounts, treatment therapies are simply beyond the means of the continent's governments, leaving them to worry about simply containing the spread of the disease--a tricky enough problem in its own right...
...There is a virtual holocaust in Sub-Saharan Africa," Rivers said. "Africa is about to slide off the face of the Earth...