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Aids In Africa

Published on Dec 12, 2015

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HISTORY

  • AIDS pandemic was first recorded case in 1976
  • Most aids researchers believe that the "bushmeat trade" allowed the HIV-1 virus, to spread to the blood stream
  • Africa s suffered from HIV/AIDS more than any other continents.
  • They believe that it got to humans by chimps because they're amuinn to aids
2.

SPREAD

  • They believe that a chimp gave it to the humans during the butchering of a chimp
  • When the mothers nurse the young's they can transmit the disease that way
  • Can spread if someone has it and they bite you
  • If you get a scratch and their blood can transmit to you
3.

ORPHANS

  • 11 million of orphans have AIDS.
  • the disease is in effecting orphans of a whole generation of children
  • Most of the orphans that have aids their parents have died
  • Their is a cure for it but africa is to poor to get this cure
4.

ECONOMICAL IMPACT

  • HIV/AIDS in Africa are substantial, and policies for dealing with them may be controversial
  • pandemic has already reduced average national economic growth rates by 2-4% a year across Africa
  • In the South African healthcare sector 20% of student nurses are HIV positive.2
  • The AIDS pandemic is much more than a medical problem
5.

ANTIRETROVIRALS

  • Has reduced the size of HIV by 96%
  • In at least 14 countries in Africa, 80% or more of people who were estimated to be eligible for treatment in 2013
  • Men account for 40% of all people eligible for treatment in Africa
  • Treatment and care accounts for an estimated 55% of all HIV spending worldwide

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