In 1984, a new deadly disease struck Africa, which ate the fat off all its victims, leaving them with little more than their skeleton, prompting the natives to nickname this disease "Slim." "Slim" rapidly developed from a localized matter to a full-blown continental epidemic, adapting the more scientifically appropriate name, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, more commonly known as HIV. This disease, the origin of which remains unknown, has devastated much of Africa, especially the sub-Saharan section, for the past 20 years. Despite the fact that the disease obliterated a large portion of the population over these past years and will continue to do so, it has only been in recent years that most governments, both African and Western, have really begun to take the first steps of solving this problem.
AIDS spread across Africa like wildfire, though its primary zone of infection has been sub-Saharan Africa. 24.5 million......
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