MY COUNTRY is being devastated by AIDS. I witness it every day in my work as
a doctor around Cape Town. A few weeks ago, for example, an entire family I knew
died from AIDS within a few days of each other—the mother on the Friday,
the father on the Sunday and their son on the Monday.
A woman I know, whose husband and youngest child have died from AIDS and
whose surviving son is ill with it, is about to lose her house because she
cannot afford the rent. I know another couple, both HIV-positive and both blind,…
