Most people in Sub Saharan Africa are illi

Another factor that is causing the AIDS epidemic to skyrocket in Africa is poverty. Most people have no stable jobs that can generate sufficient income. Women are focused to sleep with men so that they can get money to feed their families. African governments have accumulated debts from loans they get organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund so they are unable to provide good healthy care. Sophisticated treatments are available only to the wealthy in Africa, and most Africans are desperately poor. In the United States, which has a population of about 274 million, about $10 billion in public and private money is spent each year on research, treatment and prevention of AIDS. The nations of Africa with a total population of 543 million spend only $165 million. Increasingly sophisticated treatments have cut the death AIDS death rate in the industrialized countries, but not in Africa the epidemic is gathering momentum. The drugs that fight the HIV virus are manufactured by European and North American companies that sell the drugs for the sole purpose of making profits. This makes the drugs to be very expensive and most Africans can’t afford them. Lack of preventive drugs is causing infected peop

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