The New York Times - Saturday, March 20, 2004
Michael Wines (NYT)

Forty percent of the country's population has contracted AIDS or carries its virus, giving the nation of 1.1 million people the world's highest H.I.V. infection rate, state radio quoted a United Nations official as saying. Stephen Lewis, the United Nations' special envoy for H.I.V. and AIDS in Africa, was reported to have told King Mswati III that the infection rate had risen slightly since the last official tally, which concluded that 38.6 percent of the population was H.I.V. positive. Estimates of infection elsewhere in southern Africa have been falling in recent months. Mr. Lewis was quoted as saying that Botswana, once said to have the greatest share of infected people, has recorded a drop of 1.3 percentage points, to 37.5 percent. Michael Wines (NYT)

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