Aids in South Africa: Extent, Implications, and Response
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The contemporary HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa represents an acute example of how infectious diseases can undermine national resilience and regional stability. Roughly 25 percent of the country’s adult population is currently infected with HIV, which makes South Africa one of the most severely affected AIDS states in the world. The consequences of the disease have been as marked as they have been pervasive, negatively impacting on virtually all levels of the country’s security—broadly defined—as well as significant aspects of Pretoria’s frontline neighbors. As James Wolfenson, president of the World Bank, has remarked:
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