HIV and Aids in Sub Saharan Africa :: HIV in Africa

human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Sub Saharan Africa Introduction Sub Saharan Africa has a very serious human immunodeficiency virus / AIDS epidemic with millions of its people animateness with the disease. It has now become a human tragedy in some(a)(prenominal) areas of the world, but most affected is sub Saharan Africa. It is no accompaniment that the countries poor most with human immunodeficiency virus / AIDS are also the poorest. HIV / AIDS is now considered to be the single most important balk to social progress to many countries in Africa .This report will give out the current situation using up to date sources from articles, books and the World astray Web. UN Millennium development goals At the start of the new millennium, all 191 UN phallus states pledged to meet all the UN Millennium goals by the year 2015. These goals cover such issues as, poverty, hunger, education, aid, gender equality, child mor tality, pre natal care, environmental sustainability and HIV / Aids. entirely UN states have agreed to, Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. (http//www.un.org/millenniumgoals/). At Present, the HIV prevalence rates are still locomote in sub Saharan Africa. The rate is seven ties higher in developing countries than it is in developed countries. Many different schemes are laborious to reverse this trend. These schemes include,?. Oxfam, who work to champion ease developing world suffering believe that the only scheme that will help reduce HIV / AIDS in developing countries is to cancel world debt. Unsustainable debt represents a great barrier to progress in the fight against HIV / AIDS. Repayments to creditors by some of the poorest countries in the world are diverting the resources needed to respond to current suffering. (http//www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/bp25_debt_hivaids.htm) Oxfam and other similar organisations believ e that countries with high prevalence rates could help them selves to solve the aids epidemic if they did not have to meet large debt repayments to the developed world. Concurring the epidemic Unfortunately this disease is not soft concurred. The disease is still today considered to be taboo, making it difficult to talk to