AIDS IN AFRICA has metastasized into a disease whose progression is no longer measured solely by the depletion of a patient's T-cells, but increasingly by every percentage point that is shaved from a nation's gross domestic product. Developing countries are losing their best and brightest workers -farmers, shoolteachers and businessmen More than 5,000 people with AIDS die each day in Africa,and epidemiologists expect that figure to climb to almost 13,000 by 2005.By then ,health experts say , more people in su b-saharan africa will have died from AIDS than in both world wars combined or from the ubonic plague that killed 20 million people in 14th -century europe. HIV is now the single greatest threat to future economic development in Africa Surveys in Uganda indicate that 40 percent of its military force has HIV while classrooms in Malawi stay empty because a third of all school teachers are infected. So my Brothers and Sisters of AFRICA lets do somethings about it .By any means neccesary......WASALAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------