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    "Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal disease that emerged by the late 1970s in Africa and the United States..."Ninety percent of the more than 40 million people who had contracted HIV/AIDS by 1998 lived in less developed countries; more than two-thirds of the total, some 35 million, were Africans. Nearly half of those infected were female." Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.

     

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    • How have South African companies responded to the crisis?

    • How has the international community responded to the crisis?

    • What can be done to help children orphaned by AIDS?

    • How have African women been affected

    • Should limited resources be allocated to education or treatment?

    • How can the problem of the cost of drugs be resolved?

    • Compare the situation of another African country with South Africa or India.

    • What are the different challenges of sex education in Africa?

    • Has "Project Red" been successful?
     

    Available at the Reference Desk

    Opposing Viewpoints: Epidemics; Aids; Third World; Sexually Transmitted Diseases (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)

    Issues and Controversies "Drug Patents and Developing Countries" 3/28/2003; "Worldwide Aids Epidemic" 6/24/2005; "Public Health Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa"

    At Issue: Aids in Developing Countries; The Spread of Aids: Responding to the Aids Epidemic (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)

    CQ Researcher Plus Archive "Aiding Africa" 8/29/2003; "Drug Company Ethics" 6/06/2003; "Ending Poverty" 9/09/2005; “Battling HIV/AIDS” 11/14/07

     

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    Yearbook of the United Nations
    Call Number: REF JX 1977 .A57 Y4

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    New encyclopedia of Africa - Middleton, John
    Call Number: REF DT2 .N48
    "Disease: HIV/AIDS Medical Aspects"


     
     

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    Information Plus: AIDS/HIV (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)

    United Nations Demographic Yearbook REF HA 17 .D45

    CDC Global Aids Program http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/countries/default.htm

    Unaids http://www.unaids.org/en/Publications/default.asp

     

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