The most direct costs for AIDS include money for medical care, drugs, and funerals. Indirect cost will include lost work time due to illness, recruitment and training costs to replace workers, and care of orphans. We have based our presentation of the AIDS epidemic on three country's with a prominent AIDS problem: Uganda, South Africa, and Senegal. However, for the economic part of this discussion it is very difficult to divide our analysis into different countries. Besides South Africa (which I will address individually) the countries in Africa all must face very similar economic effects from the AIDS epidemic. .
Economic Effects of AIDS on Families.
The economic effects of aids will be felt first by families within their own private households. The effects of AIDS on African households are constant for all three countries because as sickness and death become inevitable so do the consequences. As soon as one member of each family starts to suffer from HIV/AIDS related illnesses each member of the family will feel the overall impact. (A very small percent of the African population realized that they have the HIV virus before they begin to feel the effects of AIDS). The family will lose the income of the infected family member, and will in turn take on the costs in order to care medically for the infected member. Other members of the family are forced to leave school or work in order to take care of the sick person in the family. The eventual death of this family member results in permanent loss of income from the lack of available labor to keep each farm running. When the family member dies the family is forced to take on funeral and mourning costs that they cannot afford. Youth will be taken out of school in order to save on educational expenses as well as add another pair of hands to the labor struggle. Another powerful reality is the outrageous number of children that become orphans due to the disease.
AIDS in Africa Africa is fighting a loosing battle against AIDS. ... Economically AIDS is greatly affecting Africa. ... AIDS is defiantly impacting Africa in many ways. AIDS is spreading in Africa for a couple of reasons. ... There are many reasons Africa's AIDS numbers are growing. ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the region worst affected by HIV and Aids, according to the World Health Organization's latest report on the disease. Aids Epidemic Update says there were 3.4 million new HIV infections in Africa in 2001, almost 70% of the global total. ... The African governments have responded to the AIDS epidemic primarily by attempting to reduce the number of new HIV infections, and to some degree, by trying compensate the damage done by AIDS to families, societies, and economies. ... Efforts to reduce the number of AIDS infections have focused on increasing AIDS awarene...
South of the Sahara, HIV and AIDS are worse than anywhere else in the world, and this catastrophe is transforming the continent forever. ... President Bush has recently allocated billions of dollars of spending to be used to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. ... Anyhow, Communicable diseases more contagious than AIDS remain a problem, making AIDS just one of them. ... It is an unbiased killer that threatens the African population. With very little education, parentless children, and cultural and societal beliefs, AIDS will continue to run havoc on the continent of Africa. ...
AIDS IN AFRICA. What is AIDS and how is it transmitted? ... AIDS kills about 6000 people in Africa each day. ... Another factor that is causing the AIDS epidemic to skyrocket in Africa is poverty. ... Increasingly sophisticated treatments have cut the death AIDS death rate in the industrialized countries, but not in Africa the epidemic is gathering momentum. ...
Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of Aids cases far exceeds that of all other geographic regions. ... One out of seven children in South-Saharan Africa will be AIDS orphans by the year 2005. ... The mining industry will suffer since it is dependant on labor from South African rural areas and other neighboring African countries, where the AIDS rate is the highest in the world. ... Few Africans can afford the drugs needed to fight AIDS, which can cost between $500 and $1,000 a month. ... No crisis poses such a threat to human dignity as the cris...
The Economic Impact of Aids In South Africa For over ten years South Africa has been in denial of its most threatining problem. ... "AIDS makes most of South Africa's other problems seem trivial-(8210:8). ... The first case of AIDS in South Africa occured in 1987, where as the countries farther north than South Africa had their first AIDS cases way before. ... "A Quarter of a million South Africans were killed by AIDS last year. ... Many firms in South Africa are providing classes on AIDS. ...
AIDS IN AFRICA AIDS is the number one cause of death in Africa and the fourth globally (Mayell 27). ... The AIDS virus has extremely affected the continent of Africa. ... South Africa continues to be the most severely hit region of Africa by the AIDS virus. ... The AIDS epidemic in Africa has created several problems. ... Jeffery Bartholet of Newsweek reports that since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, 14.8 million Africans have died from AIDS and 2.6 million AIDS deaths occurred in 1999. ...
Africa continues to dwarf the rest of the world in how the region has been affected by AIDS. ... The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa will not be stopped with drugs and "abstinence only" education, Sex education and condom availability are required for this battle. ... Condoms not only prevent HIV/AIDS but can also help control Africa's growing population challenge. ... My aunt died of AIDS when I was 13years old. ... The doctor informed my aunt that she had AIDS and passed it on to her son. ...
There are more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. ... In the last six months 39 multinational drug companies have agreed to lower their drug prices to make them more affordable to AIDS patients in South Africa. ... (Stolberg A1) Contrary to the belief of the drug companies, the responsibility of conquering the AIDS epidemic in South Africa will be a shared endeavor. ... It is unfortunate that the AIDS epidemic in South Africa had been ignored for the past 20 years. ... Thankfully, WW II is over, but the war against AIDS is Sou...
