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AIDS In South Africa: A Thesis

But the challenges facing the current South African health minister are not simply political: "Whereas HIV subtype B, the dominant subtype in western Europe and the U.S.A., continued to spread among men who have sex with men, HIV subtype C, the dominant subtype in Africa and Asia, started spreading in the general population in South Africa in about 1988. Between 1990 and 1994, there was an exponential increase in the prevalence of HIV infection" and Subtype C is now the dominant type of AIDS in the region (Karim 2009). According to the international AIDS charity AVERT: "Subtype C is predominant in Southern and East Africa, India and Nepal. It has caused the world's worst HIV epidemics and is responsible for around half of all infections" (AVERT, 2009)

Recent studies have indicated that HIV type C is more easily transmitted through heterosexual contact and "subtype C is more transmissible" overall than either types D. Or A (AVERT, 2009). Preliminary research suggests that South Africa may thus have additional...

This is a frightening prospect given that the nation already faces such great historical, social, cultural and logistical difficulties in extending even minimally competent treatment to sufferers.
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Karim, S., Churchyard, G., Karim, Q., & Lawn, S. "Health in South Africa 3: HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response.

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"Introduction to HIV types, subtypes, and groups." AVERT: AVERTING HIV & AIDS.

Official website. 2009. November 2009. http://www.avert.org/hiv-types.htm

Karim, S., Churchyard, G., Karim, Q., & Lawn, S. "Health in South Africa 3: HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response.

The Lancet, 374.9693 (2009), 921-33. Retrieved November 19, 2009, from ProQuest
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