HIV/AIDS in Botswana.

The low income due to HIV/AIDS leads to low consumption of goods and little savings, which results in malnutrition, inability to combat illness and a lack of education and skills. The low capital worth, low

In The Invisible Cure, Helen Epstein talks about why HIV/AIDS rate is so high in Africa compared to the rest of the world. Through the book, she gives us an account of the disease and the struggles that many health experts and ordinary Africans went through to understand this disease, and how different African countries approached the same problem differently. Through this paper, I will first address the different ways Uganda and Southern African countries, South Africa and Botswana in particular, dealt with this epidemic, and then explain how we can use what we have learned from these African countries to control outbreaks of communicable disease elsewhere around the world.

There is a significant drop in percentage of people with HIV in Haiti, but there’s still a lot of work ahead to change the overall situation. Especially because the country has to struggle with other epidemics and natural disasters like the earthquake in 2010, which only slows down the process of preventing

Nearly three decades ago, there was an increase in deaths of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Developing countries have experienced the greatest HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality, with the highest prevalence rates recorded in young adults in sub-Saharan Africa. In South Africa over three million people are killed by this disease (Macfarlene3). After this epidemic spreaded in Africa and killed people it branched out to other countries in the world.

Africa has a history of facing many challenges, including starvation, poverty, Ebola and AIDS. AIDS, however, has become Africa’s biggest hurdle. Botswana, located in Southern Africa, has been hit the hardest by the AIDS virus with over 23% of its population contracting AIDS. In order to help fix the AIDS epidemic in Botswana, multiple things need to be reviewed, such as understanding how AIDS spread throughout Botswana, where the region currently stands on the AIDS virus, and the three solutions on how to prevent the rise in the spreading of the virus within the area. According to the website Avert, studies have shown that the most effective ways to help stop the spread of AIDS includes testing centers, intervention centers, and the distribution of more protective measures.

Although ninety-five percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are in developing countries, the impact of this epidemic is global. In South Africa, where one in four adults are living with the disease, HIV/AIDS means almost certain death for those infected. In developed countries however, the introduction of antiretroviral drugs has meant HIV/AIDS is treated as a chronic condition rather than a killer disease. In developing countries like South Africa, the drugs that allow people to live with the disease elsewhere in the world, are simply too expensive for individuals and governments to afford at market price.

Did you know “AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa” (Quinn, online). Twenty percent of Africa’s population has died from AIDS. Poverty is a big problem in Africa. Men have been forced to become migrant workers in urban areas. And antiretroviral treatment at this time is not available to African people. AIDS is a big problem in Africa today that is now requiring help from the world.

The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.

Increments of HIV and AIDS among populaces of various landmasses, world areas and nations create in various routes and at various levels. The contamination rates in exceptionally created nations, for example, Europe, Japan, Australia, and in Islamic nations are low, followed in a moment push by North and Latin America. The circumstance in sub-Saharan Africa is more awful. 1.1% of the total populace are contaminated. The rate in North Africa and in Europe comes to 0.3%, however in sub-Saharan Africa to 7.4%. Albeit just 13% of the world's aggregate populace lives in sub-Saharan Africa, 65% surprisingly overall tainted by HIV and 75% of passings brought on by AIDS can be found there. In the year 2003 37% of the populace in Botswana was tainted,

I come from Los Angeles, a city over 7,500 miles away from Nambonkaha, yet I am not new to the African culture. Having friends and teachers from various countries within the continent such as Ghana, Namibia, Egypt, and Rwanda. I remember my first introduction to my friend, Justin, who was from Ghana. I can distinctly recall the aroma of Coco Butter, which I only learned to identify in the following weeks. Growing up with a friend who is from Ghana never seemed odd to me, other than I would rarely be able to meet his entire family. I often would catch myself thinking about the cliché thoughts, What is it like over there? Is it safe to go? Should I go when I’m older? Each of these questions proved to be a fruitless argument, cycling through my

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of the world that is most affected by HIV/AIDS. The United Nations reports that an estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and that approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004. To put these figures in context, more than 60 percent of the people living with the infection reside in Africa. Even these staggering figures do not quite capture the true extent and impact that this disease causes on the continent. In 1998, about 200,000 Africans died as a result of various wars taking place on the continent. In that same year, more than 2 million succumbed to HIV/AIDS (Botchwey, 2000).

2.4 million people died of an AIDS-related illness in Africa, and since the beginning of

Africa! Lowest point below is 515 feet at lake Assal. Tallest mountain is mount Kinjaro in Tanzania standing at 19,340 feet. Second largest continent in this big blue world. Home to a population of 1,032,532,974 as 2011. Its not hard to realize why aids is a mass production on this continent. The sub-Saharan region of Africa is the most heavily affected area with AIDS and HIV than any other region in the world. According to advert.org 22.9 million people are living with HIV in this region. This statistic is two thirds of the worlds total. In 2010 around 1.2 people died of AIDS. Doing research about this topic gave startelling news theres was a battle on who discovered HIV and AIDS. Between the years of 1983, 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo and Dr. Luc Montagniers there was fued.. Montagnier graduated in medical and biological science from the university Paris. At age of 23 became the universities medical assistant, later o became employed at the Institute Curie and for almost 30 years at the Institute Pasteur in Paris. During his time at the Latter Institute he founded the Viral Oncology Research unit. This unit devoted their time and study to cancer and the oncogenic retrovirus. But without the efforts in his studies of biochemical mechanisms which are the origins of the growth in soft agar of virus transformed cultured cells, and evidence of the multiple step process in transformation of these cells based on their certain properties of growth in soft gels. This laboratory took

In other parts of the world the AIDS problem at this time is not so

HIV/AIDS was first discovered in the late 19th and early 20th century in Sub- Saharan Africa. It originated from primates and transferred to humans. There are two types of HIV. HIV-1, and HIV-2. The HIV1 is more common because of how easily transmitted it is. The HIV1 is found in chimpanzees in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic. HIV2 is less transmittable because it was confined to West Africa before it could spread to epidemic levels. Every country has HIV/Aids in them. As of 2012, Swaziland has had the most percentage of aids by 26.50 of its population. Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia follow with numbers ranging from 23-13 percent. Since the problem originates in Africa, that is where the top HIV/AIDS infestation is. 68% of the people infected with HIV lives in Sub- Saharan Africa. More than half of all new HIV infections are in people under the callow age of 25, therefor millions are growing up with AIDS, or with dying family members.