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World AIDS Day 2005 Photos


Dakar, Senegal

Viviane Wade, wife of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, greets children on AIDS day in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005. About 40 million people worldwide are now infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Africa, with only 10 percent of the world's population, suffers over half of its infections, and one in 14 African adults is carrying HIV, according to U.N. estimates.

(Photo: AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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