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The forgotten fight; Twenty years after AIDS first made headlines in America, the disease is ravaging sub-Saharan Africa.(Lauren Bush, David Lauren visit sub-Saharan Africa as World Food Program guests)(Interview)

Vogue

| November 01, 2005 | Johnson, Rebecca | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Rebecca Johnson

Lauren Bush has never been hungry. Not in the cry-yourself-to-sleep way of starving children in Africa. She doesn't personally know people who have AIDS. Most of what she knows about the disease came from the musical Rent, which made the sight of her kneeling on the dirty floor of a tiny hut in Africa, struggling to make conversation with a 31-year-old man on the brink of death from full-blown AIDS, all the more remarkable.

"Does he like visitors?" she asked the translator worriedly.

Overhead, half a dozen flies circled a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, their busy energy a direct contrast to the man whose life force ...

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