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| 2000, July 8–14 |
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| The Thirteenth International AIDS Conference was held in Durban, South Africa. Southern Africa was the hardest-hit region by HIV/AIDS in the world, with 20 to 25 percent of the populations of Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland suffering infection from the disease (See 2000, July 8–14). | 1 |
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| Dec. 10 |
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| Pursuing the goals of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, delegates from 122 nations met in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss a treaty that would ban 12 highly toxic chemicals that have been proved detrimental to humans and the environment (See Dec. 10). | 2 |
| South of the Limpopo, country by country, from 1960: | 3 |
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