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Crosses fill a graveyard in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township February 27, 2010. Many of those buried in the cemetery died from AIDS or related complications such as tuberculosis (TB)
Monday, Apr. 26, 2010

Open quoteIn my village, when we want to kill the snake, we don't hit the tail but the head. The head of this epidemic is South Africa.Close quote

  • MICHEL SIDIBE,
  • executive director of UNAIDS, on South Africa's effort to increase AIDS testing, treatment and prevention, which U.N. officials say is the largest expansion of AIDS services ever attempted by any nation
Photo: Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters | Source: NYT