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November 20, 2006

Three Things You Don't Know About Aids In Africa

The economics graduate student Emily Oster writes in Esquire:
1. It's the wrong disease to attack. (Try Herpes)
2. It won't disappear until poverty does. (Rich Africans already behave like westerners in their sexual habits)
3. There is less of it than we thought, but it's spreading as fast as ever. (Estimates come from non-representative samples)

Posted by OneEyedMan at November 20, 2006 10:46 AM

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