nfected, the numbers will not decrease, because people are still going to get infected. But if they provide funds in order to teach youth and create more awareness about HIV/AIDS, then eventually the number of people who are affected with the virus will decrease. Maybe both are important. But which one will better the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS is suppose to double by the year 2005, so isn't it more important to stop the spread, and create institutes to perform research and screening. By having these institutes, more jobs will be provided, which will increase their economy, and people will be able to get tested, and eventually the number of people affected with the HIV/AIDS virus will decrease. Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda have accepted an agreement with UNFPA and UNAIDS, which will provide them with 9.08 million us dollar in order to fight the fight and stop the spread. This money has been assigned to increase awareness within their youth and to expand their campaigns against this virus. (Owino, October 18,2000) The HIV/AIDS epidemic is acknowledge as a world crisis, that has to be solve, but how to solve it is and will be always be an issue; the only problem is that there is no time, every minute approximately 80 people are affected with HIV/AIDS, so the world's leaders have to come up with a cure now. "Up to a fifth of patients in some African hospitals are misdiagnosed as HIV-infected on the basis of symptoms alone, and left to die because the drugs required to treat AIDS are too costly."(Medecins Sans Frontieres, September 13,2000) This is not the way which the world should be running in. These people should have a chance to survive. The western world should take responsibility for the economic state and political instability of Africa due to colonization and start helping them solve a problem that has affected so many lives. Obviously simpler to say then to do, ...
