AIDS / HIV in Africa 

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa

AIDS (Disease)--Africa

Medical anthropology--Africa

Children of Aids Patients

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Project Red

AIDS Education Global Information System

United Nations: Aids

Avert

"Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal disease that emerged by the late 1970s in Africa and the United States..."Ninety percent of the more than 40 million people who had contracted HIV/AIDS by 1998 lived in less developed countries; more than two-thirds of the total, some 35 million, were Africans. Nearly half of those infected were female." Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.

• How have South African companies responded to the crisis?

• How has the international community responded to the crisis?

• What can be done to help children orphaned by AIDS?

• How have African women been affected

• Should limited resources be allocated to education or treatment?

• How can the problem of the cost of drugs be resolved?

• Compare the situation of another African country with South Africa or India.

• What are the different challenges of sex education in Africa?

• Has "Project Red" been successful?
  

Opposing Viewpoints: Epidemics; Aids; Third World; Sexually Transmitted Diseases (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)

Information Plus: AIDS/HIV (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)

United Nations Demographic Yearbook REF HA 17 .D45

CDC Global Aids Program http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/countries/default.htm

Unaids http://www.unaids.org/en/Publications/default.asp

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