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New genetic evidence suggests that the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) retrovirus is not a New World virus, as is generally thought, but instead originated in Africa. The [...]

*The paving in the 1970s of a highway which travels across central Africa may be the seminal event in the spread of HIV, according to the author of the new [...]

DATELINE: AIDS Control Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), appealed to the African heads of state meeting in Tunis, June 13-14, 1994, for the summit of [...]

DATELINE: Africa The AIDS epidemic will have a direct impact on the pace and size of population increases in Africa, according to the United Nations. A new report by the [...]

Africa In January 1989 Winnie Chikafumba from Malawi broke the news to her husband that she had tested positive for HIV. Her husband, she said, accused her of being unfaithful, [...]

Pope John Paul's reported advice to Africans not to use condoms is like condemning the population to death, European parliamentarians charged as they tried to whip up support to issue [...]

Senegal Health officials from around the world discussed the impact of the spread of HIV-1 and HIV-2 at the four-day Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Africa, held in Dakar, [...]

South Africa The AIDS epidemic sweeping Africa is thinning the already sparse ranks of the continent's elite - the skilled, educated people who keep countries running. Scientists say the disease [...]

SOURCE: Nature, August 15, 1991;352(6336):581-588. Over the next few decades AIDS will cause a population decline in some African nations, studies of the spread of HIV*1 in Africa indicate. In [...]

Uganda Speaking to the VII International Conference on AIDS, Dr. E. Maxine Ankrah said that to adequately withstand the impact of AIDS, the disease must be viewed from a family [...]

Africa Sexual behavior is a key factor in the epidemiology of AIDS, and changing behavior is seen as a key factor in the fight against AIDS. In a presentation to [...]

'Ordinary people' may hold the key to bringing 'sense and compassion' to the lives of African women and children facing a potentially 'awesome' AIDS crisis, keynote speaker Eunice Muringo Kiereini [...]

University of Illinois AIDS in Africa now can, and should, be put into proper perspective, says a University of Illinois scientist, who has organized a symposium, 'The Impact of AIDS [...]