South Africa report # 14

This is not going to be a funny one. There is Aids in Africa. We all know that. But you can not imagine what it is like, my friends. I was invited to attend a memorial event for Aids victims in Police forces. Besides the fact that it started one hour latter than it was suppose to (everything is late in Africa) nothing else was normal to me. They said that almost 40% of population in South Africa are sick with it. 4 out of 10 people have an incurable sickness from which they will die within 1 to 15 years. Every family lost someone to Aids, have someone sick or knows someone who is sick. Government is paying money to make a kind of encouraging ads on national television that state “There is life with AIDS”. On these commercials they show people who say that they are sick but still continued their education and career. Schools are giving condoms out as crazy and have all the sex Ed possible. But they say that in schools that did not give out condoms are just as many cases of Aids and teenage pregnancies as in the schools that did. Wherever you go people do not know what to do with it and how to stop. But South Africa is not as bad, in Uganda couple years ago there was 70% of population infected. Can you imagine what it is like to live in the country were health is a minority.