aids
- Created by: tami.atkinson
- Created on: 02-04-15 09:27
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- Infectious Disease - AIDS (sub-saharan Africa - Botswana)
- Causes
- Most people cant afford the drugs to delay the impact
- minimal access to contraception
- Niger
- Rising Drug Culture
- symptoms arent usually spotted
- Taboo topic, partners/kids arent told
- Lack of education/ knowledge
- Rumour -"sex with a virgin kills the aids"
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- Rumour -"sex with a virgin kills the aids"
- men want lots of kids
- Sign of virility
- Men dominate society
- men want lots of kids
- Sign of virility
- Women have little status
- Forced into sex
- Many women die of aids
- More men
- More sex
- More men
- Many women die of aids
- Forced into sex
- men want lots of kids
- BOTSWANA
- 2002 First african country to provide free antiretroviral drugs
- population 1.6 million
- 24% have aids
- Destroying the workforce + economy
- 1/3 smaller by 2020 than without aids
- Destroying the workforce + economy
- 40 years life expectancy
- 26 by 2020
- 24% have aids
- Impacts
- Economic
- 60-70% of expenditure= aids paitents
- Sufferes draw upon health service for years
- income lost by sick = indirect cost of aids
- Social
- Life expectancy falls
- reverses dtm
- childern abandon education to care for sick relatives
- 1/10 get treatment
- assumption "marriage protects from hiv
- Life expectancy falls
- Economic
- Solutions
- 3x the number of education programmes
- drug companies cheapen to prices - affordable
- Aid programmes set up businesses - no more prostitutes
- Why is aids on the increase
- travel
- Blood transfusion
- drug use
- key facts
- 35 million adults affected
- end 2003 aid had 15 million orphans
- acquired immuno deficiency syndrome
- slow retrovirus
- 8-10 years
- "Gay Plague"
- slow retrovirus
- africa
- 10% of global pop
- 70% of aids cases
- 2006- 6% hiv prevalence
- life expectancy lowers, infant mortality increases, undoes social and economic progress
- Causes
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