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AIDS in Africa

AIDS in Africa

The prevalence of AIDS and HIV (the virus that causes AIDS ) is greater in Sub-Saharan Africa than any other region of the world . At the end of the year 2005 , approximately 24 .5 million persons were living with HIV in the region , and an estimated 2 .7 million additional people were infected by the deadly virus during that year . In the year 2006 Africa 's AIDS epidemic claimed the lives of approximately 2 million people . More than 12 million African children have thus far been orphaned by the curse

we know as AIDS ( 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

It has been difficult to determine the exact number of people affected by AIDS in Africa . But now that an increasing number of people with HIV are becoming ill , the extent of the AIDS crisis is becoming clear in several African countries . Prevention , treatment , and care efforts are not very extensive . Hence , the AIDS death toll on the African continent is expected to go on rising ( HIV and AIDS in Africa

The numbers of people affected by HIV and dying of AIDS differ from country to country in Africa . In Somalia and Senegal , only about 1 of the adult population is affected by HIV whereas in South Africa as well as Zambia , around 15-20 of adults are infected with the deadly virus that causes AIDS . In Botswana , Lesotho , Swaziland , and Zimbabwe , HIV prevalence rates have risen very high , and presently exceed 20 Compared to these countries , Cameroon , Cote d /Ivoire , and Gabon in West Africa are least affected by HIV less than 10 of the adult population in each of these countries is affected by the deadly virus . The most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa - Nigeria - is also one of those fortunate African countries that are less affected by AIDS as compared to many other countries . Here , the HIV prevalence rate is known

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to have slowly gone up from 2 in the year 1993 to 3 .9 in the year 2005 . However , there are states in Nigeria that experience the infection at rates that are higher . In all , approximately 2 .9 million Nigerians are said to be living with HIV . Lastly , in East Africa , adult HIV prevalence is known to exceed 6 in Uganda , Kenya , as well as Tanzania ( HIV and AIDS

As the number of people affected by AIDS continues to grow in Africa , poverty on the continent becomes even more profound . More than one-quarter of working-age adults on the economically devastated continent ' are suffering from HIV in certain communities in Sub-Saharan Africa . Families that are forced to care for a member who is suffering from AIDS are quick to deplete their monetary resources which would otherwise be utilized for necessities as well as the future of children A staggering number of African people die of AIDS during their most productive years . This leaves mourning orphans in addition to the elderly to contend with the sudden loss of financial support . Entire...

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