THE inexorable march of HIV around the globe has now reached remote parts of
the Amazon, researchers warn. They say the emergence of industry in areas that
were previously isolated is to blame.
American scientists visited a gold mining camp in the Amazon region of
Guyana, which has a relatively low incidence of HIV. They used a simple
15-minute test to screen 216 men at the camp, where workers live for more than a
month at a time. To the researchers’ surprise, they found that 14 of the men
tested positive for the virus.
One of the team, Carol Palmer…
