The_AIDS_Epidemic_in_Africa

The AIDS Epidemic in Africa The AIDS Epidemic in Africa Imagine waking up every day and wondering how you will feed your three young children that statistically, will not make it beyond the age of 43 and may possibly die during infancy. Families alike in many different southern Africa countries like Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and some eastern countries like Ethiopia live almost identical lives. With a great demand and an economy that is dependent upon migrant labor, many fathers provide for their families as best they can by working menial jobs more than 200 miles away. Such jobs allow them to visit maybe two or three times in one year. The separation from their wives does not stop these men from having relations. The culture of these people makes it a shameful act to openly talk about sex but “everywhere there’s premarital sex, sex as recreation,” which is one of the main causes of the spread of this deadly disease, AIDS (TIME p. 6). Very little is being done about this terrible misfortune that is finding its way into the lives of so many uneducated people, the majority of them being children. Many fairytale ideas float around in local people, help, aids, disease, children, sex, one, lives, government, epidemic, done, countries, being, africa, about, youth, young, ways, way, upon, uneducated, time, three, terrible, spread, south, small, outside, others, number, ministry, make, majority, little, jobs