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South African AIDS Clinic
Photo: Long lines at an African AIDS clinic
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Men and women wait in a long line at an AIDS clinic in Lusikisiki, South Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of the AIDS crisis. The region is home to some 66 percent of the world's cases and 80 percent of its deaths.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel

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