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"Africa's Emerging AIDS-Orphans Crisis."

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 5th, 1997

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, "Although AIDS has had a huge impact around the world, nowhere has its effect been greater than in Africa. In Zambia alone the disease is expected to create 500,000 orphans by the turn of the century. In this article Dr. Rachel Baggaley and Dale Needham examine the huge social problems AIDS is creating in some of the world's poorest countries." The corresponding author for this study is: RC Baggaley, Mcmaster Univ, Sch Med, Hamilton, on, Canada. For subscription information for this journal contact the publisher: Canadian Medical Association, 1867 Alta Vista Dr, Ottawa on K1G 3Y6,...

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