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Discusses how science in Africa has demonstrated that HIV causes AIDS as of July 2000. Overview on the discovery of its patients with HIV; Views on the scope of the epidemic of AIDS. INSET: Testing the Test.

Reports on the treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda, Africa. Percentage of adults infected with the disease; Cost of putting all of Africa's AIDS patients into treatment; Health and social conditions of AIDS victims in the country; Comparison between Western doctors and healers. INSET: Of Patients and Pills.

Focuses on the possible role of African prostitutes in developing an HIV vaccine. Basis of the notion; Problems with other methods against AIDS; Mechanism of HIV virus.

Examines the theory that AIDS originated in African chimpanzees. Evidence of its origin; Protests of Africans on its origin; How HIV virus may have passed from animals to humans.

Focuses on HIV-positive women in Africa. Study on AIDS cases in Uganda; Information on the Society of Women Against AIDS; Efforts to convince men to take responsibility on the education of AIDS.

The article presents a reprint of the article "AIDS: The Agony of Africa," by Mark Schoofs, which appeared in the November 9, 1999 issue of "The Village Voice." It features regions in Africa which had been severely affected with AIDS, with Sahara as home to two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive people.

Reports on the efforts of the United Nations Security Council in helping Africa cope up with AIDS. Damages the disease is bringing to the country as of January 2000; Why the council should focus on AIDS.