Another rising issue in third world countries especially in African countries is HIV/Aids. The continent of Africa holds eleven percent of the world's population. However, it hold sixty percent of the worlds HIV/Aids population. The number of people being affected by the on going aids epidemic has increased eight times from the years 2003 and 2005. South Africa has the largest population of HIV/Aids. 7.1 million people are living the disease in South Africa. Even more statistics of South Africans include 110000 Aid related deaths have been reported in South Africa in 2016. There have been 270,000 new cases of HIV in South Africa alone in 2016. 55% of all Children living in South Africa are on antiretroviral medications to help stop the spread of the disease. Children are being subjective to a disease that has no known cure. It makes it difficult to create a thriving society. This calls in the question of how do you make a society that can move forward as profitable nation when most of your citizens are plagued with disease. 86% of the people are aware of their HIV diagnosis. 65% of those people are receiving treatment. 81% of those people are virally suppressed. When people are ill like this and the disease is not under control it is hard to work on issues like poor infrastructure to make the country's wealth increase. In 2014 there were around 37,600 new cases of HIV in the United States. Compared to South Africa which calculated that in 2016 there were 270,000 new cases. The thing that makes all this more difficult is that there is no known cure. Treatments help but do not ensure a clean bill of health. People will continue to die from this disease. One of the best ways to help this problem is to be safe with sexual partners.
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