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AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa

AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa. AIDS – a virus with no known cure first identified in the Belgian Congo in 1959. It’s now a global epidemic, and poverty and health care don’t mix.

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AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa

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  1. AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa AIDS – a virus with no known cure first identified in the Belgian Congo in 1959. It’s now a global epidemic, and poverty and health care don’t mix.

  2. Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world's population, but almost 64% of all HIV infections, with an estimated 21.6 - 27.4 million people living with HIV-infection.

  3. Statistics • 34.3 million people in the world have AIDS • 24.5 of them live in sub-Sahara Africa • 19 million have died from AIDS • 3.8 million of them children under the age of 15 • 5.4 million new AIDS infections in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa • 2.8 million dead of AIDS in 1999, 85% of them in Africa • 13.2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million in sub-Sahara • Life expectancy in all of Sub-Sahara Africa from 59 to 45 • Zimbabwe life expectancy from 61 to 33

  4. AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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