Write 6 page essay on the topic Africas AIDS Epidemic.Download file to see previous pages... For a sometime, the South African government was reluctant about distributing antiretroviral drugs, but aft

Write 6 page essay on the topic Africas AIDS Epidemic.

For a sometime, the South African government was reluctant about distributing antiretroviral drugs, but after the being pushed hard by an ambitious citizen’s rights movement, far-ranging distribution of antiretroviral drug begun. In ‘Sizwe’s Test”, Jonny Steinberg asks do so many people dying from AIDS related diseases not take them? And why do millions of South Africans at danger not even get tested for the virus. As way of answering villages and is a locality these prevailing questions, Steinberg concentrates on Lusikisiki, a town in the nation’s Eastern Cape Province. It is South Africa’s most productive land (Hochschild 1).&nbsp.The memorable prose that Steinberg utilizes establishes the HIV/AIDS endemic in the idiosyncratic landscape of post-apartheid South Africa.&nbsp. The figures that he employs and quotes about HIV in South Africa are remarkable. Nearly six million people are HIV positive, in a cumulative population of 46 million. On a nominal basis eight hundred South Africans die on a day-day basis and the new daily infection rate is one thousand. HIV/AIDS are devastating all age of cohorts of the South African population, but specifically the young generation. Lusikisiki, is a quaint rural district in Eastern Cape, South Africa comprises of just about thirty villages and is a locality entrenched in poverty and home to 150, 000 natives. Steinberg interest was to establish a location where good anti-retro viral (AVR) cure to shield the duplication of the HIV virus. (Hochschild 1)....

For a sometime, the South African government was reluctant about distributing antiretroviral drugs, but after the being pushed hard by an ambitious citizen’s rights movement, far-ranging distribution of antiretroviral drug begun. In ‘Sizwe’s Test”, Jonny Steinberg asks do so many people dying from AIDS related diseases not take them? And why do millions of South Africans at danger not even get tested for the virus. As way of answering these prevailing questions, Steinberg concentrates on Lusikisiki, a town in the nation’s Eastern Cape Province. It is South Africa’s most productive land (Hochschild 1). The memorable prose that Steinberg utilizes establishes the HIV/AIDS endemic in the idiosyncratic landscape of post-apartheid South Africa. The figures that he employs and quotes about HIV in South Africa are remarkable. Nearly six million people are HIV positive, in a cumulative population of 46 million. On a nominal basis eight hundred South Africans die on a day-day basis and the new daily infection rate is one thousand. HIV/AIDS are devastating all age of cohorts of the South African population, but specifically the young generation. Lusikisiki, is a quaint rural district in Eastern Cape, South Africa comprises of just about thirty villages and is a locality entrenched in poverty and home to 150, 000 natives. Steinberg interest was to establish a location where good anti-retro viral (AVR) cure to shield the duplication of the HIV virus. Thus, Lusikisiki matched his criteria. Ithanga is one of the townships that he visits. Here, like many villages in the constituency, there is just one shop to serve the entire community township. Sizwe Magadla, a 29 year-old is the one who operates the shop.