Aids is still on the rise in Africa especially among youth whats failing?

Question

despite all the efforts to stop this dieses people in africa continue to die, what are they doing different from europeans?

Answer 1

AIDS is still on the rise in Africa because they do not have the funding to get tested for it like us Americans. The parents may never know that they are infected until it is too late and they have by then passed it on to their offspring during conception. Also, protecting yourself is not as high a priority as it is in other parts of the world.

Answer 2

There used to be an urban legend about 5 years ago that a cure for AIDS was to have un protective sex with a virgin. I'm not sure how many Africans still believe that today. But that did not help, and also increased more rapes. People always hate on abstinence because "People are going to have sex" Well people who are going to have sex, even those with condoms, will have unprotective sex as well, and condoms break ALL the time due to improper use in the heat of the moment.

Answer 3

Lack of education and possible not able to purchase condoms. Who knows how much it cost in Africa. Some children are born to AIDS or HIV infected mothers. Its really a shame, that the President or someone is placed in charge of something as devasting as this. If I had the money and means, I would ship them condoms, edcautional materials on AIDS and HIV the virus that causes AIDS.

Answer 4

playing games with definitions.

Pretty much Africans are dying of the same things as before, dirty water, little or no health care, famine and civil war.

Now they call it Aids. Look up the definition for Aids in Africa. In October 1985, a conference of public health officials including representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organisation met in Bangui and defined AIDS in Africa as, "prolonged fevers for a month or more, weight loss of over 10% and prolonged diarrhoea". A test for the HIV antibodies is not required.

Even the definition of AIDS differs from one continent to another. In Europe and America, AIDS-defining diseases include 29 unrelated maladies ranging from pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis to cervical cancer. In addition, an HIV-positive test and a T-cell count below 200 are necessary for a confirmed diagnosis.

But in Africa, the term "AIDS" is used to describe symptoms associated with a number of previously known diseases. In the mid-1980s, those common diseases were suddenly reclassified as "special opportunistic AIDS-related infections" and Africans were warned to change their sexual practices through abstinence, monogamy and condoms -- or they would die.

Hilarie Standing, a British medical anthropologist and AIDS researcher, concedes that African "risk populations are assumed rather than revealed." So why are AIDS cases in Africa nearly evenly divided between men and women? The answer lies in the World Health Organization's definition of "AIDS" in Africa which differs decisively from AIDS in the West. The WHO's clinical-case definition for AIDS in Africa (adopted in 1985) is not based on an HIV test or T-cell counts but on the combined symptoms of chronic diarrhea, prolonged fever, 10 percent body weight loss in two months and a persistent cough, none of which are new or uncommon on the African continent.

HIV TESTS are notoriously unreliable in Africa. A 1994 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases concluded that HIV tests were useless in central Africa, where the microbes responsible for tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy were so prevalent that they registered over 70 percent false positive results.

Furthermore, everything we know about viruses tells us that they are equal opportunity microbes. They will attack men and women weakened by malnutrition, the most effective cause of immune suppression. Venereal diseases left untreated can also impair one's immunity, rendering any victim susceptible to other infections. Africans are often assumed to die from "AIDS-like" symptoms after their immune systems have been weakened by malaria, tuberculosis, cholera or parasitic diseases.

By calling these deaths "AIDS" and claiming there is a new epidemic in Africa, are health officials from the West, perhaps unwittingly, helping to provide opportunities for development agencies, biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies who clamor for more money and markets? Certainly, promulgating the idea that AIDS is an epidemic caused by sexual promiscuity will deepen Africa's dependency on Western aid for diagnostic tests, high-tech sterilization equipment and medical personnel.


More than that, there is no money in Africa for testing, in general. So if you are starving and have the flu or some intestinal distress because you had to drink some water that is not clean, you have AIDS.

On another note, look at Uganda. 20 years ago they said that it was going to be an AIDS graveyard of a country. They got a new government, the economy improved, people started getting more calories (about double) and suddenly, no more AIDS (it is about 5% they say).

It is very easy to say the boogie man lives in Africa. Other than jumping onto the Web, is there anybody verifying anything?

Answer 5

Who knows. in my opinion i nonetheless regard young ones like that as posers. they are not gangsters in one million years. it rather is a stupid minority which grant them credit that makes them save on with their idiotic behaviour. in the event that they realised how maximum persons of the rustic looks down upon them as susceptible and pathetic then in keeping with possibility they might end with their filthy behaviour. of path the government does not help issues with their lenient sentences. human beings rather do not see any effects for his or her movements anymore. Edit: replaced into your buddy the novice footballer btw? because of the fact i heard approximately that on the information. R.I.P to him besides and sorry to your loss. with any luck the government will recognize that the greater youthful human beings crime epidemic in this united states has lengthy previous too some distance faster extremely than later in the previous it destroys anymore lives.

Answer 6

i think coz of lack of correcct resouces,things like wife inheritance,theres still no serious rape bills.still young p`ple are more promiscous than before.also theres still no gud awareness.so mostly we pray to GOD to save our good old AFRICA!

Answer 7

Simple... education. Only stupid people spread AIDS.

Answer 8

It's not what's failing.... it's what's rising that's causing it!

Answer 9

failing to keep their dicks in their pants.

Answer 10

there not sterilising them