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Sorry... Trying to understand. Are you saying that all these little kids died of aids? How did they contract it? Most kids are 3 feet tall by age three or four.
by JordanFarmer 6y ago
Sorry... Trying to understand. Are you saying that all these little kids died of aids? How did they contract it? Most kids are 3 feet tall by age three or four. Also, why so many deaths in 2002? Very effective drugs had been widely available for a long time.
- ReptileMan 6y agoKids got it trough birth/breastfeeding. Combine that with AK, 2002 - I would guess somewhere in the southern half of Africa. I guess that it was combination of medicine not being cheap and IIRC some political leaders in the region were downplaying HIV by that time.
- bobthemover 6y agoAlso corruption, ideology and ignorance. https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-virodene-affair-i https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-virodene...
- masklinn 6y ago> Most kids are 3 feet tall by age three or four. Also, why so many deaths in 2002? Very effective drugs had been widely available for a long time. Effective HIV suppression is not cheap, and usually out of reach of developing countries or poor communities such as… pretty much all of sub-saharan africa, where the AIDS pandemic remains essentially unchecked. According to wikipedia, as of 2016, 8 countries had more than 10% of the population infected and two of them (Swaziland / Eswatini and Lesotho) were above 25%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa#/media/File:HIV_in_Africa_2011.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa#/media/File... Given mother-to-child transmission is somewhere between 15 and 45% without mitigation measures (which are unlikely to be in place in a country where a quarter of the population is infected), we're talking 5~10% of children born infected.