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| | Tanzania, Kagera Region, epicentre of AIDS 15 years ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | I was based in town, in Bukoba, but often roamed about in the bush, visiting and sometimes lodging in the 21 villages of the rural district of Bukoba covered by the French NGO, Partage Tanzania, an area with approximately 70,000 inhabitants. |
 | | In the 1980s, Bukoba had been a ghost town in which everything was lacking, where matches and soap had to be purchased on the fl market… In rural areas, dire poverty, entirely inadequate nutrition, lack of health and medical care and a very high mortality rate prevailed. |
 | | There have been, and continue to be, advertising campaigns relating to the use of condoms, numerous articles on AIDS in the newspapers, on “HIV” and the threat of an epidemic, as well as lots of words on the subject at meetings and in official speeches. |
| www.altheal.org /texts/tanzania.htm (2463 words) |
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