HIV/AIDS, Schistosomiasis — Worldwide/Unknown
While around the world a vast majority of AIDS victims are men, Africa has long been the glaring exception: nearly 60 percent are women. And while there are many theories, no one has been able to prove one. In a modest public health clinic behind a gas station in Otimati in South Africa’s rural KwaZulu/Natal Province, a team of Norwegian infectious disease specialists think they may have found a new explanation. It is far too soon to say whether they are right. But even skeptics say the
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