AIDS In Sub-Sahara Africa

Fifty million people infected 22 million dead this is the reality of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The thesis of this report is the AIDS "pandemic" in Africa, specifically Africa South of the Sahara. This report will discuss the impact AIDS in having on the region. First let us discuss the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic. PANDEMIC is an epidemic over a wide geographic area (usually world-wide), affecting large numbers of people at the same time. EPIDEMIC is a disease or event that occurs in many more people than would normally be expected over a given period of time.
Africa is where scientist believe the HIV/AIDS virus originated and is now at the

heart of the AIDS epidemic. Africa has a little more than ten percent of the worlds

population, but it has more than sixty percent of the people who are infected with the

HIV/AIDS virus.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region HIV & AIDS has hit the hardest. It is estimated

that 25.8......

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