The Spread Of AIDS In Africa

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All over the world, more people than we may think carry the virus known as AIDS. Mostly in Africa, every 15 seconds a child loses one or more parents to the deadly disease. Even when the kids think that their lives couldn’t get any worse, they go out into the public and are constantly ridiculed at school for their association with the disease. Usually none of the kids who have the disease never get adopted because their lifespan is not expected to be past their teens, including all the medication at hand. It’s usually seen as too much heartbreak for a parent to give that love and know that their child will soon pass for the lack of a cure. Since most orphanages know those kids current situation, the kids are sent to people “like

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