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By the end of this decade it would take 80
000 orphanages, holding 500 orphans each, just to house the children orphaned by AIDS in Sub-SuharanAfrica alone
In 2003, an estimated 26.6 million
people in Sub-Suharan Africa were living with HIV, including 3.2 million who became infected this year. AIDS killed approximately
2.3 MILLION PEOPLE in 2003
The 2 pictures above are 2 of a vast amount
of tiny victims. Both children pictured are HIV positive.
Pictured here is a woman named Caroline Nantamu.
Ths picture was taken 1 week before her death from AIDS. she had found out she was nfected when she was pregnant with her
youngest child. She had become infect from her husband who had died of AIDS related illness years before. When she died she
left 4 children orphaned.
David Xaea (above) speaks to children during an AIDS event
organized by Nquelezana hospital, in regions hardest hit by AIDS, life expectancy is expected to plummet to age 30 by the
end of this decade.
FACT
~ Less than half of 1% of Africans with AIDS are receiving
someform of drug therapy.
~One days supply of the AIDS therapy drug stavudine costs
$6.20 in Uganda as opposed to 56 cents in Brazil where a
generic version is produced by the government.
~The United States spends an estimated $52 Billion on the
medical consequences of obesity. This is more than 15 times
the amount needed to treat Aids epidemic in Africa.
Important Links
Steven Lewis Foundation
World Vision
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