HIV/AIDS IN ZIMBABWE

HIV/AIDS

• H – Human – This particular virus can only infect human beings.
• I – Immunodeficiency – HIV weakens your immune system by destroying important cells.
• V – Virus – A virus can only reproduce itself by taking over a cell in the body of its host.

ZIMBABWE

• 1.2 million (2009 est.)living with HIV / AIDS
• Less than 38% are living in major cities.
• 50% chance children will be born with HIV
• One of the poorest countries in the world.

HELP!

• Doctors without borders.
• Humanitarian Action
• independent funding
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

GETTING BETTER

• Literacy not the problem
• For the past few years the AIDS population has dropped
• knowing is half the battle

MONKEY BUSINESS

• AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus
• originated in non-human primates in Sub-Saharan Africa
• transferred to humans during the late 19th or early 20th century.

HOW DID WE GET IT?

• Nobody know for sure but here are some theories
• a hunter transmitted the virus in a bite or scratch
• experiment in 1957 where the kidneys of infected chimps were used
• Spread by humans?