Thursday, December 10, 2015

HIV/AIDs and ARVs in Sub-Saharan Africa

HIV/AIDs are a big issue that is happening all around. It is also and issue that is on the up rise. Worldwide there are 37 million people living with HIV. About 2.6 million are under the age of 15. I'm going to talk about Sub-Saharan. In Sub-Saharan in 2013 had 24.7 million people living with HIV, 4.7% adult prevalence, 1.5 million new HIV infections, 1.1 million AIDs-related deaths and only 39% were receiving ARVs. In 2014 two-thirds of the people 25.8 million are living with HIV. 88% of those people are children. 1.4 million had been newly infected. It is estimated that 790,000 adults and children have died of AIDs. That is about 66% of the world AIDs deaths for 2014. As you can see the numbers has increased just over a year. There has to be something that can help with the amount of outbreak that is happening. People may think that Africa is the only country with the HIV.AIDs outbreak; but other places are becoming worse. It is time to see what can be done to stop this outbreak

You can learn more about AIV/AIDs in Sub-Saharan at this site
AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa

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