AIDS in Africa: The Specter of HIV

Denis Farrell/AP

Half a million African children were infected with HIV last year

Imagine your life this way

You get up in the morning and breakfast with your three kids. One is already doomed to die in infancy. Your husband works 300 km away, comes home twice a year and sleeps around in between. You risk your life in every act of sexual intercourse. You go to work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets....

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