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=History of AIDS in Africa=

Aids has effected Africans since before the 1950's. It effects the people of the Sub-Saharan region of Africa the most. It has got worst and worst as the years go on and there is no way to prevent it. In 1982 the first major case of aids was reported in Uganda, followed by Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2005 Nigeria had the most deaths and people infected by aids with 3,600,000 people infected and 310,000 people killed by aids or hiv. West Africa AIDS/HIV
 * ~ Country ||~ Adult prevalence ||~ Total HIV ||~ Deaths 2005 ||
 * [|Cote D'Ivoire] || 7.1% || 750,000 || 65,000 ||
 * [|Liberia] || 5.9% || 100,000 || 72,000 ||
 * [|Nigeria] || 5.4% || 3,600,000 || 310,000 ||
 * [|Guinea-Bissau] || 3.8% || 32,000 || 2,700 ||
 * [|Togo] || 3.2% || 110,000 || 9,100 ||
 * [|Gambia] || 2.4% || 20,000 || 1,300 ||
 * [|Ghana] || 2.3% || 320,000 || 29,000 ||
 * [|Burkina Faso] || 2.0% || 150,000 || 12,000 ||
 * [|Benin] || 1.8% || 87,000 || 9,600 ||
 * [|Mali] || 1.7% || 130,000 || 11,000 ||
 * [|Sierra Leone] || 1.6% || 48,000 || 4,600 ||
 * [|Guinea] || 1.5% || 85,000 || 7,100 ||
 * [|Niger] || 1.1% || 79,000 || 7,600 ||
 * [|Senegal] || 0.8% || 44,000 || 35,00 ||
 * [|Mauritania] || 0.7% || 12,000 || <1,000 ||

Within 10 years the life expectancy of Africans has fallen from 60 to 38 years old because of aids.

In the 1980's they had no cure for AIDS so the government promoted abstinence and the use of protection to help prevent the further spread of aids. In 1988 a doctor went to visit Uganda and when he arrived at the airport all he could see for miles was coffin markers because of all the deaths from AIDS and HIV. To make sure that the doctor would never see that site again he started different programs to help prevent AIDS. One program in 2003 was a anti-retroviral drug that helped to slow and even reverse the effects of HIV.

__Sources: HIV/AIDS in Africa__. 14 Sept. 2008. Wiki Media. 22 Sept. 2008 .