Word: saharans
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...cholesterol could not explain all heart attacks, then Ridker was determined to find out what else could. His childhood experience with his own immune disorder and his yearlong fellowship in sub-Saharan Africa in 1983, just as the AIDS epidemic was beginning its sweep around the globe, convinced him that preventing disease was as important as treating conditions once they occurred...
...risks of change but also at the potential benefits and the cost of inertia. For example, 40 countries are not on track to meet the UN Millennium Goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Twenty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa...
BUDGET BLOWOUT The tab for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS in the world's poorest countries could run as high as $9.2 billion a year, according to the latest U.N. figures. Current expenditure? About $1.8 billion. At least $4 billion is needed in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 20% of the adult population is infected...
...Institute’s findings are all the more significant because subtype C is considered one of the most infectious strains of HIV—it is responsible for over 50 percent of all cases of HIV worldwide, and is the most prevalent strain in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...counter the spread of HIV through safe-sex education, the provision of condoms and relatively cheap drugs proven to stop mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Treating those already infected would require a further $4.5 billion a year. Plainly, the priority in the impoverished nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy. And where resources are already scarce, the unspoken choice may be to simply let the majority of those currently infected with HIV die. But that essentially implies a conscious choice by the world...