As a child there was a little boy I know whose parent had HIV, he also contracted HIV and as a child he grew up having to watch his mother suffer for the illness. His grandmother ended up helping to raise him and his siblings because his mother could not do it on her own. His grandmother did the best she could to make sure he had a normal childhood. When the boy became a teenager his mother ended up passing away and I believe this a huge toll on him. Some years after that he ended up taking his own life; we are unaware if this was because he was tired of having to live with the illness.
In Africa AIDS continues to be an issue, since the discovery of AIDS 14.8 children has lost one or both of their parents because of AIDS. This issues can cause other problems for families when they loss the bread winner in the family they become faced with the issue of poverty.
While doing some research online I found two ways different countries in Africa are trying combat this issue. One way is with the use of condoms, the communities have access to free or a lost cost option to help protect themselves from AIDS. Another way has been through education and awareness. Countries have begun to take a proactive approach to testing people and trying to reduce the risk of mother passing it to their babies during birth.
http://www.avert.org/hiv-and-aids-africa.htm
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