AIDS

• Sub-Saharan Africa, 2007, 1.6 million people dies from AIDS. That same year, 18,000 died in the United States. Why is there such a difference?

AIDS IN AFRICA

AIDS: The Numbers

o 40 million people worldwide have HIV/AIDS

o 22.5 million people live with HIV in Africa as of 2007.

o 1.7 million were infected in 2007

o 1.6 million died of AIDS in 2007

o Every minute 11 people are infected with AIDS worldwide; 10 of them come from SSA

AIDS most deadly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

AIDS IN AFRICA IN %

Note high rates in Zimbabwe, BotswanaSwaziland and Lesotho

80% of those dying are between 20 and 50 years old.

How does this affect a country’s economy?

Unlike past pandemics, AIDS kills the healthy as well as the weak,

diminishing the number of workers.

KENYA

HIV/AIDS hasaffected the education of its people by forcing orphaned children tostay home and takecare of their youngersiblings

ZAMBIA

In the first ten months of 1998, Zambia lost 1,300teachers to AIDS - The equivalentof two thirds ofall teachers trained annually.

AIDS Orphans

It is often left to the older children to raise their brothers and sisters after their parents have died. There are more than 12 millions children in Sub-Saharan Africa who have been made orphans by AIDS.

Life expectancy has been reduced inSSA from 60 years to 35 years inmany countries.

In poverty stricken Africa, there is In poverty stricken Africa, there is little money available to spend on little money available to spend on the sick and dyingthe sick and dying

For many, lack of access to traditional western medicine forces them to resort to treatment by local religious “healers” or tribal medicine men.

POPULATION PYRAMIDS POPULATION PYRAMIDS

POTENTIAL POPULATION WITHOUT POTENTIAL POPULATION WITHOUT THE AIDS PANDEMIC.THE AIDS PANDEMIC.

AIDS AND WOMEN IN AFRICA

Women and AIDS

Only 9% of pregnant women with

HIV living in Africa are providedwith drugs which would preventthe infection being passed on totheir children. As a result, nearlyhalf a million children becomeinfected with HIV each year. Why?Lack of medicines, money,fear of being tested…

Common AIDS Myths and Misconceptions in Africa

• AIDS was first caused by having sex with monkeys. (Many scientists now believe AIDS entered the human population by locals eating infected monkey meat---the HIV virus most likely lived in animals for quite some time.)

• Having intercourse with a virgin will cure AIDS. • HIV does not lead to AIDS.• Mosquitoes cause AIDS. (Malaria and other

diseases yes, AIDS no)• AIDS is only a disease for homosexual men and

drug abusers. (In Africa, most infection is through unprotected heterosexual intercourse).

AIDS in the Media

Meet Kami, a South AfricanSesame Street characterwho likes nature, telling stories and collecting stuff. She is also HIV positiveand an AIDS orphan. Hername means “acceptance.”

AIDS Prevention/Education

The best way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDSis to educate the masses. Almost 90% of people with HIV/AIDS are unaware they carry the virus.

Malaria

Malaria

Malaria by the numbers:

• Each year, 1-3 million people die from malaria.

• 90% of those people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• 85% of those are children under age 5.

Malaria

• It is spread in tropical areas through infected mosquitoes.

• Malaria is both preventable and treatable.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Has donated 1.2 billion dollars since 2000.

• Malaria cases have dropped 50% in some areas due to their initiatives.

What can you do to help?

www.worldvision.org

• Sponsor a child with HIV/AIDS.

Buy (RED) products

GAP, Apple, ArmaniAmerican Express, DellHallmark, Converse,Starbucks

Join One.org

Nothingbutnets.org

$10 will buy a net for someoneand they will Teach them toUse it.

$10 will buy a netfor someone and they will be taught how toproperly use it.

theglobalfund.com

• Donate to help the fight against malaria.

BiteBack.net

$10 will buy a net for someone and teach them how to use it.