GGRC02H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 Lecture Note
Document Summary
Session 5 why botswanians die young h i v/aids & changing age structures. Hiv/aids prevalence rates: table shows ten countries with highest prevalence rates and ten countries with lowest rates. If these prevalence rates are high, then these countries have a problem. Spread of hiv over time in sub-saharan africa, 1982-1997: only in the year 2005, 1 million people died of aids-related causes in sub-saharan. Hiv/aids in botswana: botswana is among the ones with the highest prevalence rates. 45% prevalence rate among pregnant women age 25-34. Last but not least, sanitation, hygiene problems, and not very good nutrition helped spread the disease as well. Income per capita on x-axis, and life expectancy on y-axis. It is estimated that economic growth is dampened by 2-3 percent each year, that means aids is quite a huge impact in a country: the social consequences are: stigmatization. In botswana, almost everyone is infected and knows someone who is infected.
