Once a disease like AIDS reaches the kind of proportions we see in sub-Saharan Africa it is no longer a disease, it is a disaster, ... Such a widespread disease destroys the work force and shatters the economy.
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We all are touched by the disaster that went over the southern part of the U.S. This time it's not war, it's not terrorism, it's nature. I do hope it will bring the peoples of all these counties more together,Peter Walker
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