South Africa has a population of around 44 000 000. 75% of them are black.
Each day, around 250 (mostly black) babies are born HIV positive.
By the end of 2005, 18.8% of adults (15-49) were HIV positive, and by the end of that year around 320 000 (mostly black) people dropped dead From AIDS.
By 2010, it's estimated that AIDS deaths will be around the 6 million mark.
An interesting statistic in South Africa is that three times as many people that attend weddings attend funerals.
The government's response?
Putting a Marxist witchdoctor in charge of the country's health, who swears that beetroot, garlic and vitamins are the answer. Silly me, I thought that garlic was only useful as a deterrent against vampires.
A president that (when sober) publicly refutes the correlation between HIV and AIDS, whilst he spends millions of rand to build a wall around his property.
2007-03-14
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