The African Cliff
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Alex Tabarrok has posted an absolutely shocking graph at Marginal Revolution showing reduced life expectancy in 5 African countries due to AIDS. This is just astonishing, in the worst possible way.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2005.03.04 (Fri) • 18:03
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Posted by MacDara 2005.03.05, 02:15
If you’ve ever been there, you wouldn’t be that shocked. The Aids crisis is merely one facet of a greater malady in southern Africa. This is a part of the world, remember, where Robert Mugabe can claim he is saving his countrymen from ‘British oppression’ while simultaneously starving them of life’s basics; where his followers can get away with murder while, next door, Thabo Mbeke’s South Africa sits idly by, afraid to cause a fuss (what he calls ‘quiet diplomacy’).
Posted by stand 2005.03.05, 02:28
I guess the question that comes to my mind is: What is Uganda doing right? They seem to have reversed their trend.
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