AFRICA, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – AIDS is the number one killer in eastern and southern Africa, states UNICEF’s “Progress of Nations Report” released last week. “AIDS has now surpassed armed conflict as the number one killer in the Eastern and Southern Africa,” reports Africa News Online. “In 1998 alone, 1.4 million men, women and children in the region were killed by AIDS.”
“In Botswana, AIDS will be responsible for 64% of the deaths of children under five by the year 2000. … In South Africa and Zimbabwe, AIDS is projected to account for an alarming 100% increase in child mortality … Uganda has the highest number of children orphaned through AIDS … an estimated 1.1 million children under 15 who have lost [at least one parent] … 11% of Uganda’s total child population. … By contrast the AIDS orphan rate is around 1% of children in the industrialized world.”