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Nature 447, 26-27 (3 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447026a; Published online 2 May 2007
HIV: A tale of two centres
Michael Cherry1
- Michael Cherry is Nature's contributing correspondent in South Africa.
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Abstract
Two institutes on opposite sides of South Africa are intent on tackling HIV. But they are separated by more than geographical distance, finds Michael Cherry.
Sandwiched between the green Hluhluwe-Umfolozi game reserve and the national motorway running north from Durban is a 435-square-kilometre dustbowl called Umkhanyakude. In the apartheid era it was designated a part of the Zulu homeland, and today each of the small plots is scattered with thatched huts and is home to a family.
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