HIV Around the World - South Africa

Years of political turmoil...decades of prejudice against women....violence and denial....this is the recipe for South Africa's public health disaster. HIV has a foothold in South Africa and it doesn't look like it is going to let go anytime too soon. Daily funerals, millions of orphans, death and despair all at the hand of HIV and AIDS. This installment of HIV Around the World takes us to South Africa...the heart of the world's HIV epidemic. Read more...

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