AIDS and Africa

Biologist (London). 2000 Sep;47(4):224.

Abstract

Africa is dying. As much of the world turns its back, and a powerful spokesman in Africa insists that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, unimaginable numbers of young Africans are condemned to an early death. Public opinion in the West, meanwhile, turns its back on the catastrophe. 'The victims are distant blacks in an alien culture. They simply don't concern us.' This reprehensible attitude has all but excluded the tragedy from the UK media.

MeSH terms

  • AIDS Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • AIDS Vaccines / immunology*
  • AIDS Vaccines / standards
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / economics
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / epidemiology*
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / prevention & control
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Africa / epidemiology
  • Anti-HIV Agents / economics
  • Anti-HIV Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antifungal Agents / economics
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Fluconazole / economics
  • Fluconazole / therapeutic use
  • HIV / drug effects
  • HIV / pathogenicity*
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Cryptococcal / drug therapy
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • AIDS Vaccines
  • Anti-HIV Agents
  • Antifungal Agents
  • Fluconazole