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To: philv who wrote (21002)	5/17/2004 3:39:03 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81115

Phil > It would make a convenient "excuse" when confronting the wife however AIDS is a very real problem in SA. About 5m people are allegedly infected and if this is true there will be a major population wipe-out in the years to come. Already there are hundreds of thousands of orphaned children who have lost both parents. The scale of the tragedy is truly enormous. Most uninfected people are very unhappy with the stand the government has taken in that nothing has been done to protect them by identifying those who are already infected. It is argued that the condition should, at least, have been made "notifiable" to the public health authorities. Indeed, everything is done to preserve the "privacy" of the infected one and to conceal the fact that he/she is infected. It is this concealment and privacy which enables the disease to be spread at a far greater rate than if the infected one was identified. Thus one can imagine how angry people must feel when they they find they have been infected -- and then by those to whom they are married or who profess to love them. So for that reason the story does have a considerable "ring of truth".