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AIDS: How a Killer Plague Can Be Stopped

by Melvin Rhodes

The AIDS epidemic, increasingly compared to the dreaded black death of the 1300s, has taken millions of lives and promises to take millions more. Yet, tragically, we ignore the only real solution to this deadly plague.

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he facts about AIDS are overwhelming. The disease is spreading rapidly from country to country. Morgues are working round the clock to keep up with the demand. Millions of orphans are left behind by their dead parents. Cemeteries are filled and overflowing. Coffin makers are running out of wood. Ignorance, superstition and fear abound. Governments are paralyzed by the sheer enormity of the death toll. Medical services are swamped and unable to cope.

And the problem is growing worse. Much worse.

We've seen the images on television and heard the news reports from countries devastated by AIDS. But they don't begin to do justice to the magnitude of the problem.

How bad is it? The president of one country in southern Africa told the recent international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, that in 10 years his country will not exist. With a third of its citizens infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it's only a matter of time before virtually his entire country is wiped out by this modern plague.

The president of one country in southern Africa told the recent international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, that in 10 years his country will not exist.

This is not the first plague the world has experienced. Although the opening paragraph of this article describes the situation in Africa, it is also a vivid description of the black death, the plague that devastated many European countries in the
middle of the 14th century.

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn31/aids.htm


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