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...late 1970s, at about the same time it first appeared among Americans and Haitians. The disease has now spread to some 30 African countries, mostly in the so-called AIDS belt -- the string of central and east African countries that include Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zambia. Medical researchers caution that most AIDS studies done so far in Africa are spotty and preliminary. But none doubt that AIDS is both widespread and running out of control...
...Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, 16% of the adult population, including up to 30% of the men, have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Now babies and young children are also being infected, some at birth via their mothers, who are AIDS carriers, and others through blood transfusions, which are frequently administered to children suffering from malarial anemia. In tiny Rwanda (pop. 6 million), researchers estimate that as many as 22% of AIDS victims are children...
...American boom in the use of condoms yet taken hold among most Africans. "Condoms here are regarded as something dirty," says Ochero, "something you use on harlots." The resistance extends into elite circles. A frank lecture last year to a group of medical students at the University of Zambia on the dangers of taking too many sexual partners was greeted with jeers and derision...
...African officials seem more concerned with the short-term economic impact. While most governments have stopped denying that the AIDS threat exists, officials fearful that publicity about the AIDS epidemic will hurt tourism and foreign investment have continued to play it down. In Zambia, the Lusaka government banned all press statements on AIDS last March. Government officials are "putting their heads in the sand and hoping the disease cures itself," charges one Zambian doctor, who expects to see "scores of thousands of deaths from AIDS" in the next two years...
...Philippines said they had a government but it wouldn't be arriving for a couple of months. The president of Zambia told me he would only help if I could set the U.N. to do roll call in "reverse alphabetical" order. Samoa had gone fishing and nobody knew when it would be back...