AIDS is currently seen as a threat to the African continent, it is an unforeseen tragedy that plagues most countries, as their birth rates decrease.
AIDS is a contagious disease that can be acquired through sex without using condoms, blood transfusion, injecting drugs with used needles. Still without a cure, it affects millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem is so serious that one of every five deaths is due to AIDS.
In Zambia and South Africa, around 20% of the entire adult and youth population is infected with the disease; in Botswana, about 39% of the population between 15 and 49 years have the disease and in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, the percentage is 20%, these are data from the WHO (World Health Organization).
The Kenyan government, faced with the scourge caused by the disease, naively suggested that the population stop having sex for a period of two years. According to the government, this time would serve to reduce the spread of the virus, since among the population of 30 million inhabitants, 3 million are infected.
The index of infected people is growing, in 2001, approximately 5.3 million people contracted the disease from which, according to the WHO, less than 1% underwent treatment, the rest probably die without even knowing they had the disease.
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH WARNS:
Self-medication can have unwanted and unanticipated effects, as the wrong medicine not only does not cure, it can worsen your health.
Eduardo de Freitas
Graduated in Geography
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/geografia/a-aids-na-africa.htm
