"AIDS Rips at Fabric of African Society"

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"AIDS Rips at Fabric of African Society"

Washington Times (12/19/91), P. A10
Hamdan, Fouad

Abstract: Africa's economy and work force is being weakened as a result of AIDS, according to scientists and representatives attending the sixth International Conference on AIDS in Africa. Professor I.B. Mutembei, a member of the Medical Aid Foundation in Dar es-Salaam, said 70 percent of AIDS-related deaths in three districts of Tanzania's Kagera region include men and women between the ages of 20 and 40 years old. Mutembei also said that more than 30,000 people in that region had died of AIDS. Consequently, farm production in the three districts dropped 30 percent last year over 1990, and industrial output decreased 5 percent. Michael Merson, the head of the World Health Organization's program on AIDS, said that the millions of young and middle-aged Africans who will die from AIDS during the 1990s will be the society's farmers, teachers, miners, factory workers, and even its doctors, scientists, and politicians.

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