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    The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa, with prevalence rates as high as 33% in some countries severely impacting health, education, and productivity. The crisis has devastated Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Angola and its effects are spreading to neighboring regions. HIV/AIDS is disproportionately affecting people in their prime working years, leaving more households headed by grandparents and children who are less able to produce food. Vulnerable children are losing parents and caregivers, facing greater risks of exploitation and HIV infection themselves. For those already infected, hunger exacerbates the effects of the virus.

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    The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa, with prevalence rates as high as 33% in some countries severely impacting health, education, and productivity. The crisis has devastated Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Angola and its effects are spreading to neighboring regions. HIV/AIDS is disproportionately affecting people in their prime working years, leaving more households headed by grandparents and children who are less able to produce food. Vulnerable children are losing parents and caregivers, facing greater risks of exploitation and HIV infection themselves. For those already infected, hunger exacerbates the effects of the virus.

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    The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa, with prevalence rates as high as 33% in some countries severely impacting health, education, and productivity. The crisis has devastated Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Angola and its effects are spreading to neighboring regions. HIV/AIDS is disproportionately affecting people in their prime working years, leaving more households headed by grandparents and children who are less able to produce food. Vulnerable children are losing parents and caregivers, facing greater risks of exploitation and HIV infection themselves. For those already infected, hunger exacerbates the effects of the virus.

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    The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa, with prevalence rates as high as 33% in some countries severely impacting health, education, and productivity. The crisis has devastated Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Angola and its effects are spreading to neighboring regions. HIV/AIDS is disproportionately affecting people in their prime working years, leaving more households headed by grandparents and children who are less able to produce food. Vulnerable children are losing parents and caregivers, facing greater risks of exploitation and HIV infection themselves. For those already infected, hunger exacerbates the effects of the virus.

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    Alexander Chow

    11/20/07
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    The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at the heart of the crisis, which threatens the
    lives of some 16 million people. In some of the most countries affected, rates
    of HIV/AIDS prevalence are as high as 33 percent, with widespread effects
    on health, education, and productivity throughout society. The humanitarian
    crisis in Southern Africa has already had a devastating impact in Zambia,
    Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Angola, but its ripples touching the neighboring
    countries and the rest of the continent. The crisis will not ease with the next
    harvest – this is much more than a short-term food shortage. Even worse,
    HIV/AIDS is cutting people down in the prime of their productive years,
    leaving a growing number of households headed by grandparents, single
    parents, and children, and increasingly unable to produce food. Children are
    especially vulnerable, because they lose their careers, teachers, and parents,
    and are at greater risk of exploitation and HIV infection. For those already
    infected and weakened by the virus, hunger accelerates the progression from
    HIV to full-blown AIDS.

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