One in 50 Gambians is HIV-Positive, Official Says

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One in 50 Gambians is HIV-Positive, Official Says

Reuters (12/29/94)

Synthia Eledu, a World Health Organization official seconded to Gambia's National AIDS Control Office, said that 24,000 of the west African nation's 1 million people have been identified as HIV-positive. The country's tourist trade was destroyed last July by a military coup in which army officers toppled president Sir Dawda Jawara. Previously, many of the 130,000 visitors each year were middle-aged women seeking sex with young Gambian men. Approximately half of the tourists came from former colonial ruler Britain.

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