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AIDS claims 29 MPs

    JOHANNESBURG

    Malawi’s parliamentary speaker, Sam Mpasu, has raised concern about the rate at which the country’s lawmakers were succumbing to the scourge of HIV/AIDS, news reports said on Thursday.

    Mpasu reportedly said: “Imagine that 29 MPs have died of AIDS-related illnesses between 1994 and 1999. This is very alarming.” Government figures show that 14 percent of the population of slightly over 10 million people have HIV/AIDS, while at least 365,000 people have already died since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1985.

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