| AIDS and Poverty |
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Poverty facilitate transmission, makes treatment unsustainable, accelerate people death, increase the social impact of the epidemic. Reducing the possibility of people to make choices, poverty makes AIDS all the more deadly and difficult to prevent. In general the ability to confront HIV/AIDS is minimal at the lower levels of the Government structures or even non-existent. Thus the lack of directives coming from the upper levels causes among others, a high level of fear, stigma and silence. The general tendency to still consider HIV/AIDS merely as a medical problem and without an active multisectoral approach, even if it is in the national guidelines leaves that HIV/AIDS will continue to spread rapidly. Click here to return to Aids in Africa page
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AIDS is probably the greatest treat to Africa since the time of the slave trade. Poverty and AIDS are linked, it is a cause and a consequence of AIDS.