Aids Impact on Naimbia

AIDS, also known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, can have a huge impact on one’s life, even going as far as terminating it. Fortunately, in our country treatment for such a disease is attainable. Unfortunately, though, where it is really needed, where one out of three adults is HIV positive, treatment is not being distributed as patients could only wish. The reasoning behind this is because of the land being one of the many third world countries affected, as well as infected with the disease. Due to the fact that it is a third world country, poverty is just about as big of an issue as the disease itself. The country in which I am speaking about in particular is Namibia, located in Southern Africa, which has been struggling with this disease since 1986. AIDS has impacted this land in such a way that life expectancy has dramatically dropped from 61 years old in 1990 to 40 years old in 2005. One can only imagine the further decline in which has occurred in the past five years and will occur in the near future. As a result, not only will population continue to decrease from the amount of deaths, but also because no one is willing to relocate to these particular areas due to the poor climate and disease-ridden environment. Just imagine, at the rate in which AIDS-related deaths are occurring, Africa may very well be completely wiped out and classified as a vacant land right before our very eyes. Due to that statement, something must be done to turn this epidemic around.

In all honestly, it seems to be that AIDS has become a lifestyle encompassing not only the Namibian culture, but the Sub-Saharan culture as well. It has taken over the civilian’s lives in such a way that many of them have to care for themselves starting at a ripe, young age. In America, if a child was deprived of the traditional family setting, it could be guaranteed that trouble would be in their future. On the contrary, living in the African culture while under these conditions only worse, it...