Word: sub-saharan
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...work in the dark, the world has started to wake up." Indeed, world leaders may be more aware than ever of the fact that more than 30 million people worldwide are currently living with AIDS, and that most of them - particularly among the 25 million who live in sub-Saharan Africa - are doomed to die from the disease. But that doesn't necessarily make them more inclined to take the steps necessary to stop the horror...
...simply to 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...
...statement cites a United Nations (U.N.) estimate that 24.5 million people in sub-Saharan African were infected with HIV at the end of 1999. The HIV virus is deadly if left untreated and the statement argues that the social fabric and economic situation of highly affected nations will further deteriorate if the virus is left untreated. The biggest challenge, the document states, is obtaining and distributing drugs to treat the virus in the hardest-hit areas...
...continent is that of Uganda, where those trained to work on the pilot program stayed on and, with support from Uganda's president and international donors, cut the rate of new infections by more than half. If the program had continued, it is possible that the rest of sub-Saharan Africa could look like Uganda...
There's been a lot of grim news lately about HIV and AIDS: Rising infections among high-risk U.S. communities, continued risk behaviors, and plague-level infection rates across sub-Saharan Africa. In the face of such bad tidings, the latest news about emerging treatments couldn't have emerged at a better time...