Topic: Africa
It has been stated that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate against its victims, but with current statistics putting African people at the frontline of this biological war, that statement may need to be revisited. However, although this may have been the first reported ...
There are many statistics telling the horror of what is happening to the children of Africa and it is appalling. Another dilemma for the kids of Africa is the numbers testing positive for HIV, 1.9 million under 15 in the sub-Sahara region ...
While in the Western world infection amongst heterosexuals remained relatively low throughout the 1990s, in Sub-Saharan Africa the pandemic rapidly reached appalling proportions: in 1990, HIV prevalence in pregnant women was 27.7% in Uganda (Kampala), 22.7% in Malawi (Blantyre) and 10.3% in ...
I wonder how many of you know how it feels to really go hungry. I was in a conversation with someone earlier this week regarding the ravages of AIDS in Africa, where the disease spreads with such ferocity that the entire continental ...
When hunger is widespread, as it is in many parts of Africa, the ripple effects of food scarcity can impact an entire nation's economic output. The situation is similar for malaria patients, as well; up to 500 million people in Africa contract ...
AIDS is devasting the countries of Africa, and women rank first among its victims . In southern Africa, among the 15-24 age group, 16.9% of those with AIDS are women, while only 4.4% are men. While the countries of Africa account for ...
It is a common myth that effective birth control is a recent invention. Extensive studies of population and birth rates in Europe between the first century CE and the Renaissance era reveal much lower birthrates than there should have been if no ...
Senegal has arguably the most thorough and successful AIDS prevention campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to combat this problem NGOs became very active in rallying public support for various health campaigns (Pisani, 1999). Political support has remained constant, and effects have ...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have been ?plaguing? humanity for as long as men have used the services of prostitutes and for as long as wars have been fought between nations. Soldiers and civilians of old, who engaged in risky sexual behaviors, opened ...
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is not a cure, it has greatly decreased transmission and largely transformed perception of HIV/AIDS as a plague, to a manageable chronic illness. Is access to antiretroviral therapy in Nigeria sufficient, if not, what can we do to ...
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