Economist.com | The cost of AIDS

Economist.com | The cost of AIDS:

"A report presented, in its final draft, on May 20th by British parliamentarians and the Royal African Society draws together the findings of various recent studies and experts' testimony. It concludes, alas, that the most realistic estimates of the economic impact of AIDS are also the most pessimistic. The disease, it reckons, is already depressing sub-Saharan Africa's annual GDP growth rate by 0.8 percentage points. In the worst-hit countries, where more than one-fifth of adults have HIV, the burden is 2.6 points."