1. With a Partner… Explain or define the following: Apartheid Genocide
Rwanda
European Colonization
Life Expectancy
Climate Zones

2. AIDS in Africa

3. What is AIDS? Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Disease that attacks the bodies immune system
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS

4. History of AIDS 25 years ago, AIDS in Africa was unknown
Today, it is the #1 killer on the continent

6. 21 countries with the highest HIV rate are in Africa.
Facts
29.4 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Two-thirds of the worlds cases
21 countries with the highest HIV rate are in Africa.
In Zimbabwe and Botswana, 1 in 4 carries HIV

7. Facts
Between 2001 and 2003 more people died of AIDS in Africa than in all the wars on the continent
Each day, 6,000 Africans die from AIDS. Each day, an additional 11,000 are infected.

8. AIDS Today
UNAIDS estimated at the end of 2007 that worldwide, there were:
* 39.5 million living with HIV
* 4.3 million new infections of HIV
* 2.9 million deaths from AIDS
Over two-thirds of HIV cases, and over 80% of deaths, were in Sub-Saharan Africa.

9. Why haven’t countries tried to stop AIDS?
Some leaders don’t believe it:
In South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki had long denied AIDS resulting from HIV
Poverty:
Spend money on food, safe water, or AIDS medicine?

10. Life Expectancy

11. Is there any hope? For Instance, Senegal:
In some African countries, progress is being made:
For Instance, Senegal:
* Problems were recognized early;
* Resources were poured into fighting HIV/AIDS; and
* Dealt with cultural taboos head on, using mass media to raise awareness effectively.
* Government providing access to drugs was found to be more effective than people paying for them