GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sub-Saharan Africa, Factor Viii, Canadian Red Cross
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1983 spread by transmission of bodily fluids from one person to another. 1985 first approved test to determine its presence. Untested blood products used in canada until 1987, Led to the krever commission (1993-1997) (2,000 people contract hiv-aids and 30,000. People living with hiv in 2015: total of 36. 7 million(relatively even split between men and woman with many children infected as. 2 million people newly infected in 2015, and 1. 1 million died well) from aids in 2015. 36 million people have died since 2015, with. 78 million have gotten infected(compared to 28 million deaths of bubonic plague). 70% of concentration of infection is in sub- 75% of deaths that occurred from aids in 2015 also in sub-saharan africa(poor nutrition, lacking health system, lack of anti-aids drugs) geographical contributions. Focus on the interaction among locations (spatial diffusion)by understanding how different locations interact with one another one can understand how phenomena or traits in one location spatially diffuse to another.
