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             V kill large amount of people each year and what little funding the African government have for immunisations gets ploughed into these two diseases. .
             Development of a vaccine is not just a case of what funding is available, the main part of producing the vaccine for the African nations was to firstly do primary research to see what strain of the disease is present. This can take a lot of funding as Africa is a big country and the price of travelling alone can put up the cost. As for the development of the drug this is done in the private sector by the big drug companies, so therefore the price for the drug is set by them although it may be heavily funded by the World Bank. .
             "One and a half million pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa are HIV-positive. Most of their children either will be born HIV-positive or will be infected as babies through breastfeeding. About 200 in every 1,000 babies will die before their fifth birthday - wiping out 20 years of gradual reduction in child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. In industrialized countries, only about seven babies of every 1,000 die before age five."(voanews.com) .
             This is a chilling fact and one that can clearly affect the whole African nation in way of population size, death rate, birth rate and average age. It can clearly be seen how aids and HIV have an affect on a community. The important thing to look at now is how these people are being affected by the lack of funding which is being held back from them and h . .
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