Aids And South Africa: A Global Perspective

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...the most concerning problems of modern times. AIDS is a fatal disease with tragic consequences both epidemiologically and sociologically. AIDS (Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome) obeys no socioeconomic, geographic, political, or racial lines of demarcation. In the U.S. alone the AIDS epidemic has killed three-hundred thousand people (Garrett, 1996). Five-hundred thousand currently have AIDS and another one million people have been diagnosed as HIV positive (Garrett, 1996). Worldwide estimates of those infected with HIV are twenty to forty million with more than seven million deaths being attributed to AIDS related causes (Garrett, 1996). As concerning as these numbers are, in some countries the numbers of AIDS cases is exponential when compared to others. South Africa, for example, suffers from the highest AIDS rates in the world (AP Worldstream, 2002). The precise number of individuals impacted by the disease is difficult to arrive at given the lack of broad-scale testing and a deeply-ingrained shroud of secrecy concerning the problem, a scenario which is even further complicated by wide-spread ignorance about the disease, its...

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