The dying game.

The subject of this programme is the uncontrollable epidemic of AIDS in South Africa. The arrival of the disease was overshadowed by the final stages of the struggle against apartheid, and a legacy of those times is that even today AIDS awareness campaigns are associated with white propaganda against black South Africans. In the mining industry 40% of the workforce is HIV positive. The will to halt the epidemic has to come from those already infected and PANORAMA finds little hope of success here. The miners take HIV back to other parts of South Africa and neighbouring countries, infecting their families. In the last five years one million children have been orphaned through deaths caused by AIDS-related diseases. Poverty distracts attention from AIDS and creates the conditions in which it thrives.