Back to AIDs....... Has the disease in Africa been contained? Some years back there was continuous reporting of the disease and talk about the vectors crossing international borders with the movement of people and of trade.
It hasn't been contained here in DC. About one out of ten Blacks between the ages of 15 and 55 are HIV positive. One of the least talked about infection rates in the country.
BEAUBIEN: Port Shepstone is south of Durban. It’s on the coast, on the Indian Ocean. It’s in Kwazulu Natal, which is the province in South Africa that’s been hardest hit by the HIV epidemic. Nationwide, you got about an 18 percent prevalence rate among adults so that 18 percent of adults everywhere in the country are infected with HIV. But here, it’s even higher.
You go into some clinics, some places where pregnant women are coming in, and they’re testing pregnant women in these clinics. And in some parts of Kwazulu Natal, 50 percent of the women who are pregnant that are entering these clinics are testing HIV-positive. And that’s really just a sign of how hard this province has been hit by the epidemic.
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/20/157129982/south-africa-still-the-hardest-hit-by-hiv-infections