HEALTH: Treatable diseases rampant through Africa*

Rates of death and disease show how desperate is Africa’s need for medical and infrastructure assistance. Professor Charles Geshekter, Professor of African History at California State University, Chico, California, argues that because AIDS has such a high priority on medical resources, more common, treatable (yet often more deadly) diseases continue to cut a wide swath through the continent.USA Today warns about ‘a time bomb ticking south of the Sahara’. A UN press release calls it the ‘worst in…

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