Rape and AIDS in South Africa

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In South Africa today thousands of AIDS activists marched on parliament demanding free anti-retroviral drugs that help fight the disease. An estimate 5 million South Africans have HIV or AIDS. Combine that with the fact that the country’s rate of sexual assault is among the highest in the world — and you get a pretty dire picture. Rape victims, along with everyone else who gets exposed to the disease, lack access to the treatment they need.

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All reporting by Gretchen L. Wilson, © 2005

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