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Sub-Saharan Africa contains about 10% of the worlds population and 70% of the worlds AIDS cases are in this continent.
Botswana is the worst affected area with 33.8% of the people from ages 14-49 carry disease.
in 2009, the death toll was about 1.3 million from AIDS alone and since then 1.8 million people have been hit with the first base of AIDS, HIV.
The reported average expectancy of a life in the sub-Saharan for both sexes if 52 years.
The epidemic has seriously affected Africa's economy and development over few decades.
The lost of adults to aids had a significant affect on children in Botswana. an estimated 93,000 children have lost at least on parent to the epidemic.
Botswana first AIDS case was reported in 1985. In the beginning they took it serious but not at full extent. But now there trying to do things that are within their power. for example, giving out utensils for sexual intercourse.
The ways they are trying to stop AIDS is by: public edu. and awareness,condom distribution and education, improvement of blood safety, and Prevention of mother-to-child transmmission.
