AIDS mushrooms into a development crisis

Each day more than 10,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa are handed what is almost surely a death sentence, and all of them will likely be dead by 2010. These people are infected with HIV/AIDS. It is now clear that the deaths of so many adults in their most productive years will have a devastating impact not only on individual families, but also on communities and entire countries. Although health-oriented strategies to combat HIV/AIDS have been under way since the 1980s, attempts to address the socioeconomic repercussions of illness and death on such a massive scale have only just..