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Imagine living a life filled with misery and death. Every morning, you get up and have breakfast with your husband and children. One of the children at the table is already doomed to die in infancy. During your routine trip to work, you notice a teenager living alone caring for his younger siblings. He has no food, shelter, or source of income. You then notice a man who is desperately sick and has no access to a doctor, clinic, medicine, food, shelter, or even clothing. After a few hours of hard work, you eat lunch with your colleagues. Every other colleague is already fatally ill. Your Sunday afternoons generally consist of funerals and a visit to your best friend who is infected by "the death plague." Each night you go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. Everyone you know including yourself and your neighbors and your political leaders act as if nothing is happening.
Across all of Africa, this nightmare is in fact a reality. The word that is......

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