Word: swaziland
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Prejudice and stigma remain powerful barriers in Africa's fight against AIDS. Misinformation, bigotry and indifference can be found everywhere, from tiny villages to presidential offices. Nowhere is that more so than in Swaziland, a mountainous southern African country with the world's highest rate of HIV infection. An astonishing 42.6% of adult Swazis are HIV-positive. It doesn't help that Swaziland's ruler, King Mswati, 37, who is Africa's last absolute monarch, sets such a bad example. Mswati may advocate abstinence and faithfulness, but he hardly practices what he preaches. In September he chose his 13th wife...
...Estimated number of virgins who competed last week to marry Swaziland's King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in sub-Saharan Africa...
...government agreed last week to begin negotiations on a security pact that the South Africans have sought for the past four years. But even if it leads to a crackdown on antiapartheid activists in Lesotho, the agreement is unlikely to end the violence. Despite similar pacts with Mozambique and Swaziland, the A.N.C. tripled its attacks in South Africa last year...
...exploring ways of circumventing them. Businessmen are attending strategy sessions on how to continue exporting iron, steel and other goods despite the U.S. boycott. Under discussion are techniques ranging from the creation of foreign "front" companies to the rerouting of trade through such neighboring black states as Lesotho and Swaziland...
Qwabe said the conference motivated her to take action against AIDS when she goes home to Swaziland this summer. She said the conference made her realize “I can, as a young person, do something...