youthicasa2008.org http://youthicasa2008.org Youth ICASA Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 AIDS in Africa http://youthicasa2008.org/?p=5 http://youthicasa2008.org/?p=5#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:04:45 +0000 admin http://youthicasa2008.org/?p=5 AIDS in Africa has grown to be a huge problem for the entire world.  Two-thirds of all people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, although this region contains little more than 10% of the world’s population.1 AIDS has caused immense human suffering in the continent. The most obvious effect of this crisis has been illness and death, but the impact of the epidemic has certainly not been confined to the health sector; households, schools, workplaces and economies have also been badly affected.

During 2008 alone, an estimated 1.4 million adults and children died as a result of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.2 Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 15 million Africans have died from AIDS.3

In the absence of massively expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, it is expected that the AIDS death toll in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to rise. This means the impact of the AIDS epidemic on these societies will be felt most strongly in the course of the next ten years and beyond. Its social and economic consequences are already widely felt, not only in the health sector but also in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and the economy in general. The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa threatens to devastate whole communities, rolling back decades of development progress.

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