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AIDS In Africa

AIDS In Africa

AIDS IN AFRICA

AIDS is the number one cause of death in Africa and the fourth
globally (Mayell 27). AIDS is a disease caused by HIV-a virus that attacks
the white blood cells of the body, which help fight off infections. AIDS
breaks down the body’s immune system. AIDS is technically known as
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Aids is a worldwide threat but it
has affected some parts of the world--Africa, the United States, and
Haiti--were severely affected. 
	The AIDS virus has extremely affected the continent of Africa. More
than 8.6 percent of all adults in sub-Saharan Africa are HIV-positive,
compared to 0.6 percent of Americans (Mayell 27). This disease has
greatly surpassed the number of people affected in the United States. Rich
Mkhondo revealed that AIDS surpasses malaria and war as the biggest
killer in Africa. Unlike other countries, where the disease has spread among
homosexuals and intravenous drug users, most of the infections in Africa
are the result of heterosexual sex.
	South Africa continues to be the most severely hit region of Africa by
the AIDS virus. Louise Vis Carton states that South Africa has the highest
number of HIV-positive individuals in the world. Sub-saharan Africa seems
to be the region with the fastest moving epidemic. “By early 1999, the
Government of South Africa estimates that 2.4

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