AIDS in africa

The aids virus is seen as a threat to the African continent, is a tragedy without predictions that devastates a large part of the country, because it decreases their birth rates.

Aids is a contagious disease that can be acquired through sexual intercourse without using a condom, blood transfusion, injection drug use with needles used. Still no cure, affects millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem is so serious that of every five deaths is due to AIDS.

In the countries of Zambia and South Africa, about 20% of the adult population is infected with the disease; in Botswana about 39% of the population between 15 and 49 years are with the disease and in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, the percentage is 20%.

The index of people infected is growing, in 2001, approximately 5.3 million people contracted the disease from which, according to the who, less than 1% carried out the treatment, the rest probably die without even knowing that he had the disease. There's a whole continent dying of Aids.

The disease has claimed 17 million Africans, a fifth of them children. In some countries, such as Botswana, more than one-third of the adult population is infected by the HIV virus. As the productive population is dying, these countries before, are getting even poorer. Seven out of ten cases of Aids in the world are focused on the African continent – especially in the southern half. Worse: the trend is that the disease continue advancing. There is no medical treatment that stand up to the epidemic, no medicine to treat the sick, nor hope to alleviate the sufferings of those who stay.