Posted AT 3:01 AM EDT on 24/05/05
Devastating setback in Africa . . .
MBABANE — The latest survey of AIDS prevalence in Swaziland, a tiny kingdom of one million people that is the world's most infected country, has found an unexpected rise in infections -- to 42.6 per cent -- despite massive efforts to stop the spread of the disease.
African AIDS activists in the small southern African country, and elsewhere on the continent, described the news as shocking and devastating.
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