Vivid account of plague of AIDS in strife-torn Uganda. AIDS called “slim” due to its effects on the body. Half of adults in one hospital tested positive. A survey of truck stops showed about 70% of prostitutes and 33% of truck drivers infected. 50% of pregnant women. Open sores due to syphilis may be reason heterosexuals are main target. A Ugandan local government official, Badru Rashid, said, “You see, a man has a wife, and a woman has a husband. But they also have many, many good friends.” Another said, “We cannot live without sex. What else is there, where is the enjoyment? We might as well be dead.” Hundreds of thousands may be infected.