There have been many people who have died because of HIV and AIDS, approximately 25 million people have died and an estimated 39 million were living with HIV by 2005.
During 2010 alone, approximately 1.2 million adults and children have died as a result of aids and illnesses in sub- Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of this epidemic more than 15 million Africans have dies due to AIDS.
Hospitals in the poorer parts Africa don’t have many beds available and the people being admitted in there are the people who are in their later stages of illness reducing their chances of recovery.
Young women and girls who are living with HIV in Africa are young women aged between 15 to 24. Girls are getting taken out of schools to take care of people with HIV and AIDS in their family.
Women who fall pregnant are more at risk of getting AIDS and even dying due to this.
This can be caused by unprotected sex with a man. Untreated STI’s that break the skin, such as genital herpes can give HIV easy access to the bloodstream. In developing countries the poor people don’t have what we have, such as they could have used the same needle twice on two different people to transmit AIDS. If they don’t have protected intercourse with someone who has AIDS it can be passed onto that other person.
If women are infected with HIV she can transmit this to her unborn baby during the pregnancy, the labour, delivery or breastfeeding. Almost 600,000 children are infected by mother-to-child transmission annually.
