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South Africa has an estimated 5.5 million people
infected with HIV, a number second only to India
and one that amounts to about an eighth of
estimated cases worldwide. On average, more than
900 people die of the disease each day in South
Africa. The government said on Thursday that the
adult death rate had climbed significantly over a
seven-year period, largely because of AIDS, and
that there was a campaign aimed at deliberately
misrepresenting the government's program to fight
the disease.