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It is estimated that,
29.4 million people are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan
Africa. That is two-thirds of HIV/AIDS cases reported globally.
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the national level, the 21 countries with the highest HIV prevalence are
in Africa. In at least 10 African countries, prevalence rates among
adults exceed 10 percent.
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At the individual level, the arithmetic of risk is horrific. In Zimbabwe
and Botswana, one in four adults carries the virus. A child born in
Zambia or Zimbabwe today is more likely than not to die of AIDS.
- There are
13 million children orphaned by AIDS Worldwide, 10 million of them in
sub-Saharan Africa.
Since the start of
the epidemic, over 39 million people have been infected with HIV/AIDS in
sub-Saharan Africa. Even though there is growing controversy over the
effectiveness of HIV tests, and the accuracy of the incoming figures, there
is not a doubt that AIDS is spreading rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
3.2m
new infections
2.3m deaths
26.6m Victims
47 yrs: Life expectancy; 62 yrs: without Aids Each year the
number of infections grow the number of deaths grow and the number of
victims grow. however each year the life expectancy drops and so does the
life expectancy of people with AIDS drop.
25 years ago, AIDS
was unknown in Africa. Yet AIDS is now the number one killer disease in
sub-Sahara Africa, surpassing malaria.
As a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
much of Africa has entered the 21st century watching the gains of the 20th
evaporate.
Many people in Africa catch
aids from fellow people around them. thousands of people in Africa have to
live and suffer with this horrible disease. People who don't have it dread
getting, them who haven't yet caught it can only fear and dream how horrible
it can be for the many others surrounding them: relatives, friends, and
every other person they see with it.
Sometimes when one person in a
family catches AIDS/HIV they get kicked out of the home where they live with
their families. Their families disown them all because they get caught up in
this diseases horror and horridness.
