Kabare — Craning their necks through the window of a medical centre in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a dozen ex-combatants from the recent civil war watch images of sexually transmitted infections flashing on a television screen.
These men and women have just laid down their weapons in one of Africa's nastiest wars and are now coming to terms with the unseen danger of HIV. It is widely assumed that more than a decade of fighting between foreign-backed rebels, Congolese militia and the national army has spread the virus in eastern DRC, while crippling health services.
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