Hiv/aids

A good example I find is when the President of South Africa claimed that if you wanted to get rid of HIV/AIDS all you had to do was to take a shower with soap and then you would be cured. This just clearly shows that people don’t know a lot about the disease. Because otherwise no one would have believed him, yet in South Africa many people actually believed what he said and thought that this was really the cure for the disease.

In Latin America and the Caribbean there’s an estimated number of 1.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS, significant for this region is that the number of people affected differs greatly between the countries and even within the country itself and therefore the ways of transmission differ between the different countries. The greatest transmission category is the injection of drugs through intravenous needle usage. Another transmission method famous for this region is the transmission through heterosexual people, this mainly occurs due to their sex practices. The number of people affected by HIV/AIDS is also continuing to grow.

In Europe (Including the former Soviet Union) there is also only a relative small number of people affected by HIV/AIDS. HIV is mostly transmitted in Europe via homosexuals, pregnant woman, drug users, through sexually transmitted diseases and through sex tourism (Prostitutes). Although in Europe there was always a very low infection rate this changed when there was a economic, political, and social transition in the former Soviet Union region. In Europe we are lucky to have a good health care system so that not a lot of people die from HIV/AIDS in comparison to other regions.