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Home > Africa: HIV/AIDS Has 'Highly Negative' Impact on Agricultural Production, UN agency says

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Thursday, September 2, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
172 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has announced the results of a study showing that HIV/AIDS is causing a "long-term decline" in subsistence agricultural production in Mozambique and across sub-Saharan Africa, Agence France-Presse reports. The study, which was based on interviews with about 90 people in Mozambique in 2003, showed that as HIV-positive people become too ill to farm, they stop planting many crops.

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Governance [4]
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