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To: Marshhawk who wrote (1752)	8/22/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Marshhawk	Respond to of 2769

And now the news!!! More bad news out of Africa 8/16/99 ZCCM reported Cu output down 27 kt (month on month?) secondary to production problems at Mufurli mine. 8/10/99 ZCCM lost 136 mil kwacha (approximately $100,000) in 98. Not too bad I guess Mail & Guardian reports that from 1/96 until 6/96 that ZCCM screened 21,743 miners for silicosis and found a high incidence (Of course silicosis is deadly in the setting of TB and AIDS). I hate these damn articles that don't give the exact incidence and prevalence rates. I have been unable to convince CDI, amongst others that AIDS will affect African cobalt production. Maybe this will help. mg.co.za How Aids is starving Zimbabwe Zimbzbwe is waking up with a shock to a hidden cost of the Aids pandemic: declining food production. This week the Commercial Farmer's Union put figures to the decline: maize 61%, cotton 47%, vegetables 49%. Why? Because of the loss of workers and wordays due to HIV/AIDS. Aids is usually seen in terms of public health costs, lost of skilled labor and loss of workdays in industry [by some if not all] But it's effects on smallholder agriculture are equally severe. Aids widows in the communal areas are growing less food because they lack money to hire tractors, ploughs and casual labor. Their savings, tools and animals paid for medical and burial expenses for Aids-stricken husbands. "From the time one adult family member is bedridden, Aids compromises the nutrition and food security fo the whole family says the dep. dir. of the Uganda's Women's Effort for Orphans. The cycle goes like this: a man is taken ill. While nursing him, the wife can't weed the maize and cotton fields, mulch and pare the banana trees, dry the coffee or harvest the rice. This means less food crops and less income from cash crops. The man dies, farm tools, and sometimes cattle are sold to pay burial expenses. Mourning practices forbid farming for sereral days. In the next season, the family plants a smaller plot. If the mother becomes ill, the cycle repeats and the family withdraws into subsistence farming. The bottom line is that AIDS causes an acute shortage of labor and tremendous dependency on households headed by females and the elderly. Now for the CDI and all those who still believe the problem in Africa is a lack of capital, I have a question. What happened to coal production in the Donets Basin in the Ukraine when Kruschev and Stalin decided to starve the peasants? Did it increase, stabilize or go down? You can look it up.