Social+impact+of+AIDS

__South Africa:__ 75% of premature deaths were by AIDS. There are 1.9 million AIDS orphans in South Africa. The virus is also spread through when a women who has AIDS gives birth to a child. Also, Extended family networks, which can cope with the normal traumas of life in poor countries, often begin to fray when orphans are dumped on them and when the breadwinners can no longer support themselves, let alone anyone else. The transfer of knowledge across generations is lost, and socialization is reduced. AIDS can also cause kids to have to stay home and help their siblings out if their parents have died of AIDS and because of that, the kids don’t get proper education like others. A development on the social impact of AIDS in South Africa is that AIDS are killing women and the breadwinners, people who make the most income in a family. That’s bad because if they die, society can’t progress because they make the society keep going and if they go away, the society would start to crumble without them.

__Swaziland:__ When AIDS hit Swaziland, they were just starting to have farms becoming social enterprises and the supplies grown there would go around the world, but since some people in Swaziland have AIDS, some farmers get sick and can’t work and the supplies that are supposed to grow, don’t because no one is there growing them. It’s said at least 10,000 orphans will be orphaned because of AIDS killing their family. A main cause of how this all is spreading is by how the people who have AIDS don’t want others to know that they have it. Because of them not telling anyone that they have it, they spread the disease a lot if they decide to have unprotected sex with others and that would cause many other generations to have AIDS and possibly wipe out whole family lines. A role in the social impact is that because of some farmers being sick and not being able to grow any kind of crops at all, the trade routes they had made, crumble because of the lack of people growing the crops and close to nothing gets sent out.