Africa is fighting a loosing battle against AIDS.
In the last 15 years AIDS has taken over 11 million lives.
and it is estimated that another 22.5 million are infected. African household incomes have.
fallen by half and business profits have decreased by 20 percent due to AIDS deaths, and.
this is just one impact of the AIDS epidemic. Economically AIDS is greatly affecting.
Africa. In the gold mines of southern Africa one in four of its 48000-strong labor force.
has AIDS. Investors are starting to view sub-Saharan Africa as a risky destination.
because of the region's staggering HIV/Aids statistics. Another impact of AIDS affects.
the children. When so many people are dying from this disease it leaves orphans with no.
one to raise them. Many of these children are then not attending school and getting an.
education. AIDS is defiantly impacting Africa in many ways. .
AIDS is spreading in Africa for a couple of reasons. One of the reasons AIDS is.
spreading in Africa is cultural norms. In Africa it is not abnormal for a man to have sex.
with a woman who is not his wife. Another reason that AIDS is spreading is men working.
away from the home. Men are being forced to travel or go to cities to find work because.
there are no jobs, when these men are away from their wives they find other women to fill.
their sexual desire. Also, the men who are truckers in Africa are helping spread the.
disease. They go through out Africa, away from their wives, and have sex with many.
people. Another reason AIDS is spreading is lack of education and lack of funding. .
There is not enough money to tackle the problem in the way in should be handled. If more.
countries would give money to Africa more vaccines and more education on the issue.
could be handled. If the people could just be educated on the issue these numbers may not.
be so high. Another reason the disease is spreading is because children are also being.
targeted. Children are looked at as clean or innocent so they are targeted out, thus.
The AIDS crisis in Africa has become an enormous problem that cannot and should not be ignored. Out of all of the people in the world with AIDS, at least one third reside in Africa. Why do such a large number of people with AIDS exist solely in Africa? ... What can be done about the AIDS problem in Africa? ... AIDS has the potential to create severe economic impacts in many African countries. ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the region worst affected by HIV and Aids, according to the World Health Organization's latest report on the disease. Aids Epidemic Update says there were 3.4 million new HIV infections in Africa in 2001, almost 70% of the global total. ... The African governments have responded to the AIDS epidemic primarily by attempting to reduce the number of new HIV infections, and to some degree, by trying compensate the damage done by AIDS to families, societies, and economies. ... Efforts to reduce the number of AIDS infections have focused on increasing AIDS awarene...
South of the Sahara, HIV and AIDS are worse than anywhere else in the world, and this catastrophe is transforming the continent forever. ... President Bush has recently allocated billions of dollars of spending to be used to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. ... Anyhow, Communicable diseases more contagious than AIDS remain a problem, making AIDS just one of them. ... It is an unbiased killer that threatens the African population. With very little education, parentless children, and cultural and societal beliefs, AIDS will continue to run havoc on the continent of Africa. ...
AIDS IN AFRICA. What is AIDS and how is it transmitted? ... AIDS kills about 6000 people in Africa each day. ... Another factor that is causing the AIDS epidemic to skyrocket in Africa is poverty. ... Increasingly sophisticated treatments have cut the death AIDS death rate in the industrialized countries, but not in Africa the epidemic is gathering momentum. ...
Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of Aids cases far exceeds that of all other geographic regions. ... One out of seven children in South-Saharan Africa will be AIDS orphans by the year 2005. ... The mining industry will suffer since it is dependant on labor from South African rural areas and other neighboring African countries, where the AIDS rate is the highest in the world. ... Few Africans can afford the drugs needed to fight AIDS, which can cost between $500 and $1,000 a month. ... No crisis poses such a threat to human dignity as the cris...
The Economic Impact of Aids In South Africa For over ten years South Africa has been in denial of its most threatining problem. ... "AIDS makes most of South Africa's other problems seem trivial-(8210:8). ... The first case of AIDS in South Africa occured in 1987, where as the countries farther north than South Africa had their first AIDS cases way before. ... "A Quarter of a million South Africans were killed by AIDS last year. ... Many firms in South Africa are providing classes on AIDS. ...
AIDS IN AFRICA AIDS is the number one cause of death in Africa and the fourth globally (Mayell 27). ... The AIDS virus has extremely affected the continent of Africa. ... South Africa continues to be the most severely hit region of Africa by the AIDS virus. ... The AIDS epidemic in Africa has created several problems. ... Jeffery Bartholet of Newsweek reports that since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, 14.8 million Africans have died from AIDS and 2.6 million AIDS deaths occurred in 1999. ...
Africa continues to dwarf the rest of the world in how the region has been affected by AIDS. ... The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa will not be stopped with drugs and "abstinence only" education, Sex education and condom availability are required for this battle. ... Condoms not only prevent HIV/AIDS but can also help control Africa's growing population challenge. ... My aunt died of AIDS when I was 13years old. ... The doctor informed my aunt that she had AIDS and passed it on to her son. ...
For the past two decades multinational drug companies have turned a blind eye on the AIDS epidemic in South Africa by refusing to sell antiretroviral drugs to them at discounted prices. ... There are more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. ... In the last six months 39 multinational drug companies have agreed to lower their drug prices to make them more affordable to AIDS patients in South Africa. ... It is unfortunate that the AIDS epidemic in South Africa had been ignored for the past 20 years. ... Thankfully, WW II is over, but the...