AIDS in Africa

One conflict in Africa that has taken a long time to get appropriate media attention, with regards to its severity, is that of the conflict of ordinary African people against HIV and AIDS.As many African countries have moved towards democratization, they have been rewarded with the debts of their previously unaccounted dictators, most of whom embezzled billions of dollars from their own country into private savings. Obstruction by some major pharmaceutical companies has also contributed to the hampered responses of many governments. The current and future generations are paying for this with their own lives. In 2000 the population began with 24 million Africans infected with the virus. In the absence of a medical miracle, nearly all will die before 2010. Each day, 6,000 Africans die from AIDS. Each day, an additional 11,000 are infected.