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The infection rate in Senegal has remained remarkably stable.

"You will not find another lab like this in Africa, or most of the world. It is a research institution and it is also a hospital diagnostics lab, but the most distinguishing thing about it are the Senegalese people running it and doing everything. In my experience with AIDS, you don't see that very often. You see different kinds of relationships, where you have a European or an American heading the lab. If you want to have sustained efforts like this, you have to get out of that formula. You'll never have the leadership."

| A quote from Harvard researcher Dr. Phyllis J. Kanki in John Donnelly's must-read Boston Globe article "In Africa, hope emerges" (via Ronn Taylor


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