The Congo –HIV/Aids By Maddison Amoroso:
The Congo is a dangerous place in Central Africa. They suffer from poverty, diseases aids and HIV, a high rate of underage marriages and childbirth, in 2013, around 700 newborn babies were infected every day with Aids or HIV, but only 24% of the children who needed antiretroviral treatment (ART) received treatment causing 190,000 children to die. The Congo has the most serious HIV and Aids case in the world. Over 24.7 million people living in the Congo region have HIV just alone in 2013, calculating 71% of the world's total.
The Congo is the world’s least developed country in terms of life expectancy, education, standard of living and key health indicators, like maternal and child life. Following years of economic and political decline, the war of 1998-2002 led to extreme violence, …show more content…
The Congo is ranked in the bottom ten countries in the world for life expectancy due to the lack of services for their health. HIV and Aids affect 5.3 percent of the population, but affects the 15-49-year age group the most and is an obstacle to reducing poverty in the Congo. An estimated 90,000 adults and children were living with HIV or Aids at the end of 2003. The government supports a multi-agency initiative implementing a ten-year programmed to assist people living with HIV or Aids. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest nation in Africa, with a population of close to 70 million that is growing by nearly 3 per cent annually. In 2013, five of the six sub-Saharan African countries that reported rates among both female and male sex workers found female sex workers were more affected of either AIDS or HIV. However, HIV prevalence among male sex workers was still high with a ranking of 13%. The national AIDS response progress reports, HIV among this group is 15% across West and Central Africa and 14% across East and Southern
The Congo is a dangerous place in Central Africa. They suffer from poverty, diseases aids and HIV, a high rate of underage marriages and childbirth, in 2013, around 700 newborn babies were infected every day with Aids or HIV, but only 24% of the children who needed antiretroviral treatment (ART) received treatment causing 190,000 children to die. The Congo has the most serious HIV and Aids case in the world. Over 24.7 million people living in the Congo region have HIV just alone in 2013, calculating 71% of the world's total.
The Congo is the world’s least developed country in terms of life expectancy, education, standard of living and key health indicators, like maternal and child life. Following years of economic and political decline, the war of 1998-2002 led to extreme violence, …show more content…
The Congo is ranked in the bottom ten countries in the world for life expectancy due to the lack of services for their health. HIV and Aids affect 5.3 percent of the population, but affects the 15-49-year age group the most and is an obstacle to reducing poverty in the Congo. An estimated 90,000 adults and children were living with HIV or Aids at the end of 2003. The government supports a multi-agency initiative implementing a ten-year programmed to assist people living with HIV or Aids. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest nation in Africa, with a population of close to 70 million that is growing by nearly 3 per cent annually. In 2013, five of the six sub-Saharan African countries that reported rates among both female and male sex workers found female sex workers were more affected of either AIDS or HIV. However, HIV prevalence among male sex workers was still high with a ranking of 13%. The national AIDS response progress reports, HIV among this group is 15% across West and Central Africa and 14% across East and Southern