These articles should help you get a better picture of the seriousness of the ongoing crisis in Africa. Some of these stories are new, others old, and can catch you up to speed if you haven't been following the situation.

Source: San Francisco Gate
Date of publication: 3-25-01
Headline: AIDS Drugs In the Third World
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/25/MN105297.DTL

Source: International Herald Tribune
Date of publication: 3-21-01
Headline: AIDS Data Put South Africa at the Epicenter of Epidemic
Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/14021.html

Source: CNN.com
Date of publication: 3-20-01
Headline: One in 9 South Africans living with HIV
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/03/20/safrica.aids.reut/index.html

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Source: CNN.com
Date of publication: N/A - Ongoing, updated "special."
Headline: Aids: Africa in Peril
Link: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/aids/

Source: Disaster Relief.org
Date of publication: 3-16-01
Headline: AIDS Vaccine Could Combat Virus in Africa
Link: http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/010316AIDSvaccine/

Source: Rainbow Network.com
Date of publication: 3-23-01
Headline: South Africa Has Biggest AIDS Population
Link: http://www.rainbownetwork.com/content/NewsLife.asp?newsid=1636

Source: BBC News
Date of publication: 9-15-99
Headline: Aids: World's 'worst undeclared war'
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_447000/447862.stm