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Wife Inheritance Spurs AIDS Rise in Kenya

Wife Inheritance Spurs AIDS Rise in Kenya

This article was written by Stephen Buckley of the Washington Post's Foreign Service on Saturday, November 8, 1997. The article reports on the explosion in the number of cases of AIDS in Kenya due to the tradition of inheriting the wife of a deceased man by his brother.

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