Epidemiology

AIDS Overwhelms South Africa Hospitals

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 17th, 2000

The AIDS epidemic is overwhelming South Africa so badly that some public hospitals are turning people away, limiting treatment, and forcing doctors to make hard decisions about whom to save.

Looking for desperately needed help from the developed world, the governments of South Africa and other African states are eagerly awaited a speech on January 10, 2000, by US Vice President Al Gore to the United Nations Security Council on the impact of AIDS in Africa.

With an estimated 4 million South Africans - one of every 10 people - already infected with the AIDS virus, the epidemic poses a huge challenge to the country's public health system.

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-01-17)

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