HIV and AIDS-Botswana Flashcards
1
Q
Why are people unable to resit HIV
A
Destroyed immune system
2
Q
How many people had HIV 1990-2009
A
1/4 of the people 15-49 yrs old
3
Q
How many pregnant woman had it?
A
44% in 2004
4
Q
Why is it hard to deal with AIDS?
A
Antiretroviral drug expensive, foreign doctors expensive
5
Q
What is the economical problem?
A
Sick people cant work so don’t contribute to economy, families have to pay funeral so their wealth decreases, not enough money to help AIDS orphans
6
Q
What is being done?
A
From 2002 antiretroviral given to pregnant women, in 2010 170K people got drug, campaigns if HIV awareness, condoms distributed
7
Q
HIV and AIDS statistics
A
380K have HIV, 4.1K AIDS deaths
