What Is The African HIV Epidemic?

HIV is a global epidemic which a lot of people don’t like to think about. 70% of the worlds HIV/AIDS positive population live within sub-Saharan Africa, one of the poorest areas on the planet. Though HIV has become much less of a death sentence in the developed world than it once was, in the less developed areas of the planet it’s just as life threatening as it once was. With such a high level of infected people and such a small amount put towards their treatment, the spread of this disease is far outpacing the therapies put in place to counter it.

Most of the money poured into countering this epidemic is aid money donated by countries all over the world. Without this money there’d simply not be any resources put towards dealing with the AIDS epidemic and it would spread totally unchecked. Though a lot of money and volunteer hours are put into easing this crisis, this amount is starting to diminish. The developed world seems to have decided that the issue is being beaten. This could be due to how tired and overworked their volunteers are or general economic strain, but less and less is donated each year. This lessens what can be done to ease the issue.

The fact is that the issue isn’t getting better and as countries lessen their donations things will get worse. For this reason the aid charities need to work out the best way to get the very most from every donated pound. The things they need to be doing also need to be very cost efficient. Wasting what little money is available would be terrible and as such a lot of charities are looking at specialist care bundles. These would contain certain items which could be easily mass produced for little expense but could be the difference between life and death for an HIV positive individual.