Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 22 Oct 1995
"I am not trying to be alarmist, but this is the reality we are facing. We are burying them (AIDS victims) at a rate of 300 every week," Stamps told the independent Sunday Gazette newspaper.
"At least 100,000 people will die of this disease within the next 18 months. At present... 25 to 30 bodies of victims of AIDS are put (daily) into mortuaries of Harare and Mpilo (in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo) hospitals where authorities are now failing to cope with the congestion," he said.
The minister said Zimbabwe had become one of the world's top countries with new infections with the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) which causes AIDS.
Health officials estimate that up to one million Zimbabweans are infected with the virus.
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