Epidemiology

Science Issue Focuses on AIDS Research in Africa

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 3rd, 2000

A special June 23 AIDS issue of the international journal, Science - including research-based articles and an editorial by leading experts, plus an investigative report - documents the agonizing human toll of the disease in sub-Saharan countries.

A boy whose HIV infected mother had hanged herself, a tuberculosis ward where more than half the patients were HIV infected, and many other tragedies confronted a Science investigative team. They recall, for example, an infected woman who was lucky enough to receive anti-HIV drugs so that she could give birth to a healthy baby, only to lose the child to AIDS, after transmitting the virus while...

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