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This paper explores Mozambique's HIV/AIDS pandemic and the interplay between multiple factors which increase the risk of HIV infection. The author focuses on the role of apartheid in shaping the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how war-induced donor dependency has undermined the government’s ability to set national health policy and implement an effective national strategy. She looks at how externally imposed structural adjustment conditions undercut Mozambique's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and demonstrates the need to initiate HIV/AIDS prevention programs for refugees, internally displaced persons and soldiers both before and after armed conflicts.