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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 focuses on the problems AIDS fighters in various African countries are finding while trying to get African men circumcised in an effort to prevent AIDS and the transmission of AIDS. Many of the countries have a severe shortage of doctors, patients who are minimally educated, and minimal medical regulations, which has resulted in many African men receiving their circumcisions at illegal locations and having them done by barely medically educated medical staff.

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.

Profiles Anne Bayley, who first identified the presence of AIDS in Zambia. Career highlights, including how she came to Zambia as a British missionary doctor in 1961; History of the disease's spread in Africa; Patients treated by Bayley at her tumor clinic for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), whom she recognized as having AIDS; How the association of AIDS with homosexuality greatly inhibited scientific understanding of the disease's transmission; Bayley's contributions to AIDS research; Her personal views on AIDS.

Discusses the effort of Glaxo Wellcome PLC to block competition for its anti-AIDS drug Combivir in Ghana. Comments from Christopher Kiige of the African Regional Industrial Property Organization; HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa; Agreement on pricing among pharmaceutical companies.

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.