By the end of 1996 the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world was 22.6 million. Of that number, 14 million, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total, were in sub-Saharan Africa (Wehrwein, 2000). Nearly two decades into the outbreak, the epidemic has spread throughout the...

Today there is not a single country around the world which has wholly escaped the AIDS epidemic. As the epidemic has matured, some of the developed nations which were hard hit by the epidemic in the 1980s such as the United States have reported a slowing in the rate of new infections. No region of ...

Countries, companies, and people are now uniting to fight AIDS, the scourge of Africa. Until recent years, Africa was a nation of death with no hope of regaining control. However, in recent months, a swell of support has come to combat the AIDS/HIV struggle. Many people and the companies they work f...

Africa has always had many problems with diseases and as of Tuesday Southern Africa faces the world's worst humanitarian crisis because of AIDS, hunger, and a weakened ability to govern. Southern Africa is in the middle of the AIDS virus. In the small kingdom of Swaziland there are thirty-eight...

Until the 19th century, most of Africa was a mystery to the western world. Its impassable forests, rivers blocked by falls, enormous deserts, and deadly diseases had foiled explorers' attempts to infiltrate the interior. Little was known about the hundreds of groups of people who lived south of the...

Pandemics Throughout history, pandemics/epidemics have had dire effects on societies and sent shockwaves through the world. They have undermined economies and eroded the very foundations and values these societies were based on. Two of these pandemics, perhaps the worst, are the Bubonic ...

A Detained Resilience After reading "Successes Against AIDS in Africa" by Ben Barber, it is easy to conclude that although some countries are successful in the stop against AIDS, other African governments' lack of help to stop the AIDS epidemic has caused millions of innocent lives ...

The children of Nathaniel Price did not ask to be born unto him; if they would have had choice, the four daughters would have most likely settled elsewhere. Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is a realistic-fiction novel which captures a Georgia family beginning a mission trip in Africa ...

HIV has been a steadily increasing disease in the United States over the last twenty years. In the past year alone two million new women have become infected with the disease while eighteen point five were already carriers. Roughly one point one million women died last year due to this trag...