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2006/12/09
65 | | 5 | Madagascar' s isolation has provided at least one bonus: it has protected its people from HIV/AIDS.[CR] Over on the mainland, one in five adults has the virus, while less than 1% of Malagasies are infected.[CR] If mining and tourism take off, that may change.[CR] So far, the government has shown commendable foresight.[CR] The president himself went through a very public HIV test earlier this year and educational campaigns are in full swing.[CR] Most of the nearly 19m Malagasies barely survive off tiny plots of land for which they often hold no title, growing rice the old way.[CR] Just outside Ambohibary, a little village east of Antananarivo, a farmer labours on a tiny rice plot with four of his eight children.[CR] His grandparents once owned several hectares, he explains, but they were divided among ten children, each with seven or so descendants.[CR] The rice he grows cannot feed his family; he must also earn cash as a bricklayer and lumberjack.
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