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Biggest problem facing African AIDS victims is lack of drugs.
Byline: Laurie Goering
GULU, Uganda _ After many years of marriage, Aceng Lodah's husband took a young second wife. But the girl grew gaunt and died after only a few years. Then Lodah's husband died as well. In 1996, two years after burying him, Lodah took an AIDS test and found out she, too, was infected.
Now the 53-year-old, who lives in a displacement camp in war-torn northern Uganda, struggles each day to find the strength to hoe her meager vegetable plot and to care for seven children _ four of her own and three left behind by a sister who also died of AIDS.
"I don't know who will take care of them if I die," she said quietly. The neighbors, who shun families touched by AIDS, "say it would be better if we all died fast," she said.
Uganda has waged one of Africa's most successful campaigns to stem the spread of HIV-AIDS, dropping its national prevalence rate from 18 in 1992 to around 6 percent today, largely as a…
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