Aids In Africa

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The number of people living with Human Immune-Deficiency Virus (HIV ) in Africa especially in Sub-Saharan part is quite big . More than half of the population is infected with HIV AIDS and the number of individuals being infected increases each day . It usually causes high death rates in children and adults . According to statistics , the number of those who are infected is quite high which is about 2 .3 million adults and children (UNAIDS , 2006 . The number seems to be dropping drastically which portrays

that there has been a change of behaviour which has made the number to reduce and also the decrease can be as a result of increased mortality rate of those who are infected . The number of people who are most affected by AIDS are prostitutes and their clients homosexuals and most of individuals who inject themselves with drugs . In Sub-Saharan region HIV transmission is mostly experienced in most of heterosexual transmission in Africa most of the women are infected at early stages which increases the gap between men and women who are infected with HIV

In Africa , South Africa is the country which has the highest prevalence rate of individual who are infected with AIDS . According to epidemiological survey , it shows that the number of infected individuals in this country does not decrease and the main factors which have lead to this increase includes social instability , poverty , family disruption migratory labor system which leads to increased morbidity , sexual transmitted diseases are in increased levels in these regions , women lives in low status and sexual violence

The increased incidence rate of Aids in Africa has lead to a major economical problem which has made the country 's economy in most of Sub-Saharan countries to drop drastically and people in these regions to live under a lot of poverty . According to various statistics , most of the Sub-Saharan Africa countries drop economically with around 1-2 of the with individuals who are infected with HIV AIDS live in than the rest of the household . This is because the level of productivity decreases drastically since individuals infected with HIV become weak and they are unable to carry on with their daily routine work . These individuals in most cases who are young eventually die leaving young children and the aged who are not able to work for their basic need . They are therefore left to depend on well wishers government and other non governmental organizations for their living Due to high death rates , it has also lead to great food shortage since those who work in farms are usually the young generation which is the group which is highly infected . This has lead to lack of essential labor which is needed in farm and therefore the family can result to use of finances which were not necessary to purchase food

In some Sub-Saharan countries such as South Africa , most of productive individuals such as those who work in various governmental organizations are dying of AIDS at a very...