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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (466)	11/28/2005 6:50:47 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

In Lesotho, the percentage getting ARVs will be 5% or less, effectively dooming a third of the populace to extinction. The whole country could become a hollow shell in 5-10 years (even moreso than it is now). I remember the first USAID grant for AIDS education going to a Soweto NGO in 1990 or 1991. The old Nat government did nothing. The new ANC government did next to nothing. Pretty astounding in a country that is making so much progress on the commercial front. The sad reality is that in a country with a surplus of poor unemployed, AIDS might not be as noticeable as it would be in countries with labor shortages. Except in all the township cemeteries, of course. You can't drive by one now without seeing dozens of new graves. Very sad.