Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: HIV/AIDS in South Africa and China. The HIV/AIDS epidemic first came to the lime light in the early 1980s and has ever since puzzled scientists and researchers

Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: HIV/AIDS in South Africa and China. The HIV/AIDS epidemic first came to the lime light in the early 1980s and has ever since puzzled scientists and researchers around the world. The scourge accounts for many deaths in their millions around the world and is now one of the leading economic burdens globally. Particularly the poor sub Saharan Africa is the most affected region of the world accounting for approximately 70% of the infected population worldwide. Transmission in the poorer states especially in Africa and Latina America is largely through heterosexual relationships in commercial sex as well as in marriage and long-term relationships. South Africa falls here, and is one of the leading regions in terms of numbers of the already infected as well as the rising new infection rates under this region. In contrast, in other developed countries, transmission is predominantly among drug addicts during injection, homosexuals, and commercial sex workers. However, lately the transmission has changed significantly especially in the Asian and Eastern Europe regions. The virus is now mostly being transmitted through heterosexual intercourse in places where only drug injecting addicts and gays. In parts of Asia, where it has generically being transmitted among injecting drug users, commercial sex workers, gays and their clientele , is increasingly being found in other sectors of the society considered as low- risk areas through heterosexual transmissions. China falls under this region and is recording increased rates of infection from heterosexual ways (Joseph et. al. 314).