AIDS targets everyone. It doesn’t discriminate in age. In 2009, there was estimated to be about 330,000 children under the age of 15 living with AIDS. The scary part is come now in 2011 that number has doubled. The children are infected if their mothers are infected. The disease travels through breast feeding so the children have no choice but to accept the fact that they might be born with AIDS. This epidemic has conquered everyone in Africa of all ages, making the population decrease faster. The average life expectancy of a person living in Africa now is 43 years old. As time goes on, that number will continue to decrease. In 2010 it was estimated that there are 75% premature deaths due to this illness. 12.3 million Kids are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS. These kids face an impossible education due to their sickness. However AIDS manages to do more then kill. AIDS has a severe impact on the social and economic parts of their government. AIDS is making it impossible for Africa to have skilled workers and teachers. AIDS is also blamed for decline in farm production. It also is a key component to hunger and starvation in Africa. Even though this disease is a terrible tragedy for Africa, the nation’s poverty has caused these issues. Since they don’t have much money to spend on important things, they lack health care, health information, and health education. Because of Poverty, it forces the African men to migrate to find jobs and money. While away they have multiple sex partners, and then return home to Africa where the disease is spread.
Social and Economic impact: AIDS causes many deaths making companies lose their young adults in productive years. If the epidemic continues to sky rocket then the economic plummet is far more severe then others indicate. Africa is already poor as it is, but a good chunk of the money they do have is going towards AIDS patients and companies that have lost workers due to AIDS. The money given to the companies goes towards training costs and replacement of workers. Money is also given out towards helping orphan kids. All of this money is being taken out of their governement to treat AIDS patients, creating less jobs, less employees, and less income.
Economic Impact on Households: As soon as a member of a household begins to suffer from the disease, the whole house and everyone in the house begins to suffer from it, as well. The family will have to under-go many serious obstacles and challenges. First, the household will have to learn to manage without another person's income coming in. Along with lacking the income of one member, other people in the family will most likely have to suffer by missing work or school in order to care for the one sick in their household. Not to mention the amount of stress, and scare they would have finding out about their family member having HIV/AIDS. The family household will also experience an extreme amount of expenditures from all the medical care needed for the one sick. Potentially, this could lead to death. Death could be caused from the permanent loss of income, funeral and mourning costs, the removal of children from school in order to still educate them and increase work around the house; resulting in a severe loss of earnings in the long run.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/90/aids-in-africa
http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/SEImpact/southafr.pdf
Social and Economic impact: AIDS causes many deaths making companies lose their young adults in productive years. If the epidemic continues to sky rocket then the economic plummet is far more severe then others indicate. Africa is already poor as it is, but a good chunk of the money they do have is going towards AIDS patients and companies that have lost workers due to AIDS. The money given to the companies goes towards training costs and replacement of workers. Money is also given out towards helping orphan kids. All of this money is being taken out of their governement to treat AIDS patients, creating less jobs, less employees, and less income.
Economic Impact on Households: As soon as a member of a household begins to suffer from the disease, the whole house and everyone in the house begins to suffer from it, as well. The family will have to under-go many serious obstacles and challenges. First, the household will have to learn to manage without another person's income coming in. Along with lacking the income of one member, other people in the family will most likely have to suffer by missing work or school in order to care for the one sick in their household. Not to mention the amount of stress, and scare they would have finding out about their family member having HIV/AIDS. The family household will also experience an extreme amount of expenditures from all the medical care needed for the one sick. Potentially, this could lead to death. Death could be caused from the permanent loss of income, funeral and mourning costs, the removal of children from school in order to still educate them and increase work around the house; resulting in a severe loss of earnings in the long run.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/90/aids-in-africa
http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/SEImpact/southafr.pdf