Where have all the Swazis gone?

A culture that condones, even encourages, promiscuity and polygamy in men, while denying women the right to refuse to have sex or insist on the use of condoms; a limited economy that relies on sending workers away from home for long stretches to work in highly infected South Africa; and a government, led by a playboy king with an ever-expanding stable of wives, that has denied the scale of the problem, and, while people were dying, poured funds into ... Full Story »

Posted by Louise Franco
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Subjects: World, Health
Topics: Africa, HIV/AIDS
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Posted by: Posted by Louise Franco - Dec 22, 2007 - 4:28 AM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Dec 22, 2007 - 9:26 AM PST

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Louise Franco
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by Louise Franco - Oct. 1, 2008
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Kris Muller
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by Kris Muller - Oct. 1, 2008

My husband had worked with the health care system and with traditional healers in Swaziland in the 1980s. He felt the article was thorough, fair and balanced, and heart-breaking.

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