COLUMBIA — The image of rural older women surrounded by young orphans has become a symbol of the effects of HIV/AIDS on sub-Saharan Africa. With more and more working-age people dying of the disease, poverty can strike households quickly and without mercy.
In South Africa, AIDS takes toll on older women
Sunday, October 21, 2007 | 6:06 p.m. CDT;
updated 9:02 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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