HIV and AIDs

HIV/AIDS is causing a really big problem in African economic growth and population. Many African people get HIV and then die because of AIDS, and this became a major issue especially in some parts of Africa, which are affected more by HIV/AIDS than any other part of the world. The amount of people that have HIV/AIDS and then die because of it varies from some countries to other countries. Some countries like Cameroon have 5.4% of the people infected with HIV, while other countries, like Swaziland have 33.4% of the population infected with HIV. The growth of HIV spread in Africa has increased a lot from the 1990’s to 2008. More and more people are infected with HIV, and then die because of AIDS. By the end of 2007, around 22.5 million people were living with HIV, and around 1.7 million additional people were infected in just that one year. Also, households are ruined by this growth of HIV infections. Many families are loosing their home income earners, or workers have to stay home to care for the other people in the family that are infected with HIV. The average life expectancy in Africa is now only 47 years because of HIV/AIDS, when it could have been 62 years without them. HIV and AIDS are really destroying Africa, and there isn’t too much that is or could be done about it.
-Article by Alex K.