AIDS is not murdering African economies

<p>JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) A decade ago, there were copiousness of doomsday forecasts reporting a AIDS pestilence would neatly diminish African economic growth with a sold concentration on a impact on food security.
But a array of fender maize harvests in dual of a countries worst-hit by a disease, Zambia and Malawi, advise a regions economies have not followed this script, interjection in partial to diagnosis programmes and plantation subsidies.
The likely scenarios generally went like this: keep tillage would be ravaged since working-age peasants would disgust or die, withdrawal a back-breaking work in a fields to a immature and a old, with yields suffering.
AIDS was seen as potentially a larger mercantile startle to Africa than a bubonic illness was to Europe centuries ago as a latter killed distant some-more of a really immature and a really aged than it did those in a primary of their lives.
The examples of Malawi and Z...