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africa--aids
we're learning about africa and how so many people have aids and are dieing of it and i was wondering do people mainly die of aids because of unprotected sex or what?
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not only that, but if a mother has aids her child may be born with it too. and there's really no way to completely prevent it over there. so it keeps spreading. since they don't really have things as good as we do, like they don't always have clean medical instruments or clean water, diseases are more common. so ultimately, it can be because of unprotected sex, but it is spread in other ways too. before people really knew how to test blood for aids, some blood transfusions contained aids infected blood. i think this was in the 70s or 80s, but i'm not positive.
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There are many reasons for the high numbers of people infected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Poor education of the populace, informing them on prevention of disease.
Poverty affecting the ability to purchase condoms.
Poor medical practice using dirty needles, quite often through insufficent funding to buy new equipment.
Corruption of some governments resulting in not passing much needed funding of basic healthcare to the people.
Religious and cultural taboos.
Children being born to infected mothers.
The somewhat backward thoughts that women carry the disease, so they are checked to see if they are clear and the men can sleep around until they are married. Of course this then means that they have picked up the virus, passed it to their wives who in turn pass it to their unborn babies.
I'm sure there must be other reasons, but those are a few to get you started.
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Well, they die of AIDS because there isn't any easily affordable and widely available treatment.
They get AIDS because of lack of information regarding safe sex practices, and because there isn't a system for distribution of protection against it.
Also, a lot of children are born with AIDS, because their mother was infected.
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