AIDS Virus Is Widespread on South African Campus

A survey at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province has found that nearly 25 per cent of students tested have the virus that causes AIDS.

South Africa has one of the fastest-growing AIDS epidemics in the world, and in KwaZulu-Natal, deaths now exceed births. A 1998 survey at a major teaching hospital in the province found that 32 per cent of pregnant women had the human

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