Using computer technology to study the structure of HIV, scientists have determined that HIV originated around 1930 in rural areas of Central Africa, where the virus may have been present for many years in isolated communities. The virus provably did not spread because members of these rural communities had limited contact with people from other areas. But in the1960s and 1970s, political upheaval, wars, drought, and famine forced many people from these rural areas to migrate to cities to find jobs. During this time the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV infections, developed into a worldwide epidemic.

While cases of AIDS have been reported in every nation of the world, the disease affects some countries more than others. More that 95 percent of all HIV-infected people live in the Less Developed Countries. In these areas, the disease has sapped the populations of young men and women who form the foundation of labor force. Most die while in the peak of their reproductive years. Moreover, the epidemic has overwhelmed health-care systems, increased the number of orphans, and caused life expectancy rates to plummet.

In Africa, the disease has had a heavy impact on urban professionals-educated, skilled workers who play a critical role in the labor force of industries such as agriculture, education, transportation, and government. The decline in the skilled workforce has already damaged economic growth in Africa, and economists warn of disastrous consequences in the future.

While many would argue to the contrary, the United States has tried to accept the role of protecting the world. America is peerless with respect to influence, power and prosperity it is precisely because of this that the country must act now to help the poor and destitute in the world. No crisis poses such a threat to human dignity as the crises of AIDS in Africa. America cannot turn its head to the silent screams of the dying.

Africa’s AIDS epidemic may not have been fueled by the sexual transmission of the HIV, rather, it is suspected that unsafe medical injections and blood transfusions are to blame. The research estimates that about 60% of people with HIV in Africa became infected through contaminated needles rather than through sexual contact. Every year there are hundreds of millions of unsafe infections in Africa where needles have been used on someone and reused without sterilization.

These problems have reached crisis proportions in some parts of the world already burdened by war, political upheaval, or unrelenting poverty.

The nations of Africa plagued with HIV cannot

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