Aids in Sub Saharan Africa
By: Emma Bodnar
Number of people living with HIV in 2011
Botswana: 300,000 people
Lesotho: 320,000 people
Malawi: 910,000 people
Mozambique: 1,400,000 people
Namibia: 190,000 people
South Africa: 5,600,000 people
Swaziland: 190,000 people
Zambia: 920,000 people
Zimbabwe: 1,200,000 people
Causes of Aids
There are widespread practices of sexual networking that involve multiple overlapping or concurrent sexual partners. Sexual networks are more likely to happen with men than women. In some cultures it is accepted or even encouraged. Along with having multiple sexual partners, unemployment and population displacements resulting from drought and conflict have contributed to the spread of HIV and AIDS. Intimate partner violence, extreme poverty, education, and partner income disparity explained almost all of the differences in HIV status among people aged 15-29.
Facts about HIV and AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa
*As of 2011, HIV has at least 10% of the population in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe infected.
* In the mid 1980s, HIV and AIDS were pretty much unheard of in Southern Africa. Now it's the worst infected region in the world.
* An estimated 22.9 million people are living with HIV.
* Since the beginning if the epidemic, 14.8 million children have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.