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Zimbabwe: Orphans of AIDS or corpses of a lost battle
Dec 7 2006, Pooja

AIDS is a disease without boundaries and the speed with which it has engulfed every part of the world proves it. Last year an estimated 2.7 million people were infected in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Worldwide the figure is about four million.

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