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Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 May 2012 02:30:54PM 1 point [-]

Even in Africa, HIV has taken advantage of modern transport. Migrant workers are a major cause of HIV spread in sub-Saharan Africa. This has advanced to the point where new road building projects think about what they will do to disease transmission. These laborers and the like aren't just walking- the possibility of such migrant labor is connected to the fact that even in the developing world, buses exist.