Hiv And Its Effects On The World s Worst National Aids...

Since it’s discovery, HIV has spread relentlessly, bringing about the most devastating pandemic in recorded human history. This pandemic is obliterating the lives and livelihoods of millions of individuals worldwide, with more than 39 million people having died due to AIDS-related causes, 35 million people living with HIV and 2.1 million individuals being newly infected each year. Thus, each day an estimated 15,000 individuals are newly infected and this alarming rate is set to increase. In Swaziland, where gender inequality is pervasive, public services are weak and poverty is extensive, the situation is far worse. Twenty years after the first case of HIV was identified in the small country of Swaziland, the home of about a million people, it has the dubious distinction of having the world’s worst national AIDS epidemic. The earliest AIDS case in Swaziland was in 1986. In 1992, the first sentinel survey of antenatal clinic attendees was conducted, revealing a prevalence of 3.9%. 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