5 / 11
Page 29
Notes:
Virology Research Journal | Volume 2
allied
academies
May 18-19, 2018 | Montreal, Canada
2
nd
World Conference on
STDs, STIs & HIV/AIDS
L
et us note that HIV / AIDS was considered only as a
homosexual disease in the USA in the 1980s, and that
it was identified as a public health problem of paramount
importance 6 years later. HIV had spread to many countries
in eastern, central and southern Africa and reached all other
continents and most countries around the world. AIDS can
destroy the development of the human capital, reduce
the development of a country in its effort to improve child
survival, extend life expectancy and give better chances in
life through education and to a productive and stable life.
This HIV pandemic contributed to the humanitarian and food
crisis of the first years of the first millennium. Sub-Saharan
Africa, for example, has experienced the most horrific
HIV epidemic ever seen with antenatal prevalence rates
above 30%. Millions of children have lost their parents, life
expectancy has declined many years and all areas of life have
been affected to frightening degrees. HIV/AIDS challenges
food security, productivity, availability of human resources
and social, economic and cultural development. HIV/AIDS
affects first and foremost individual families and households,
but its impact reaches the macroeconomic level of all citizens
of a country. By the year 2003, Sub-Saharan Africa numbered
between 25 and 28.2 million children and adults living with
HIV, and between 3 and 4 million adults and newly infected
children.
e:
colonie_d@yahoo.frHIV / AIDS impact on human capital for development after realized text
Jacques Ntibarikure
Colonie des Pionniers du Développement CPD, Burundi