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Thursday, August 1, 2002 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
75 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Government officials say a controversial song, in the national language Swahili, contains a verse that has been inciting people to go out and catch the disease. Music lovers insist the song was meant to scare people from forced marriages, a practice prevalent among the Wazaramu ethnic group living in Tanzania's coastal region.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/9260 [5]
Country: 
Tanzania [6]

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