This British Medical Journal article and their attached comments by
physicians suggest that reuse of needle syringes by private physicians
is responsible for the high spread in children and some adults.   Public
health is the more conscientious healthcare there.

Judy Ritchie



Spread of AIDS in Africa driven by poor medical practice, report says



http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466/a?etoc



Another apparent inconsistency in the sexual transmission model, says
the group, is the continued reporting of HIV infection in the young
children of seronegative mothers. A South African study found HIV in 6%
of children aged 2 to 14 years, a figure too high to explain by maternal
transmission alone
(www.hsrc.ac.za/research/npa/SAHA/news/20021205Keynote.html). Another
study found that HIV positive children had received more injections than
uninfected children (Lancet 1986;ii:1103-4).




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