AIDS/HIV: An growing epidemic in sub-saharan africa
In the entire world, there is about 34 million people who are suffering with AIDS/HIV. As startling a number as that is, what is even worse is that 69% of those infected reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is numbered out into about 2.38 million people suffering from this incurable disease living in the region. Additionally, 91% of the world's children that have contracted HIV, live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This growing epidemic can be related back to a lack of proper health care and limited access to family planning, because this is a sexually transmitted disease knowledge about the ways to protect oneself is necessary in combatting this disease. Studies have shown that the actual origin of AIDS/HIV can be traced back to Africa, making the disease a battle that millions of Africans have had to fight, literally in their own backyard. The struggle never ends in Sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS/HIV is a current issue that affects millions of lives each and everyday; children become orphans and mothers risk having their unborn children contract the disease before being born. There is medication to suppress the infection, but not all can access the medicine. Here are just a few examples of how this disease is very much a current event.