Don’t neglect Aids crisis, warn health workers

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• Widespread shortages of food and clean water
• Weak population more susceptible to diseases

Health workers in Zimbabwe are warning that international alarm over the spreadingcholera emergency, which has claimed nearly a thousand lives, is overshadowing the Aids crisis, whic

The rising death toll from cholera, brought on by collapsed sewerage
systems infecting drinking water, has become the most visible sign of
Zimbabwe’s extraordinary implosion and the indifference of its leaders.
As the disease spread across the border into South Africa, alarmed
foreign governments promised to pour in aid to contain the outbreak.

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