Friday, January 30, 2009

Orphans In Zimbabwe/ Med Care

Snap your fingers every 3 seconds a child dies in Africa. Additional 12 million orphans have been infected by Aids. Around 50% people living adolesecor young adulthood 55.2% of people aged between 15-24 in Zimbabwe. 17,000 children are infected by in 1999 & 900,000 children have been orphaned. Kids are being taught about HIV and Aids. The most common way to get Aids is by mother to children transmission. Women that live in rural areas found it very hard to find Arv's. (Antiretroviral Drugs). Also people traveled long distance for med care. In 2007 they decide 140,000 people in need for Arv's will receive them. Today still approximately 472,000 people are in need of treatment but have not yet received Arv's Drugs.













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