“Death Stocks a Continent”

Article Link:

http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/

Please read the article and answer the questions: Most of these questions have long, long answers that you will find through the packet.  Please read this well and think about the questions. Use a separate piece of paper for your answer.

Pictures:

Write a quick reflection of viewing the photographs.

Article:

1. What is the West’ s response to the AIDS crisis in Africa?

2. How is AIDS in Africa different than AIDS in the United States.  Look for many things through the article, there are a lot of things

3. What are the people dying of?

4.  Why are people afraid of getting tested and telling people they have AIDS?  Summarize, with example, the story of Latetitia Hambahlane and the TB patient, Fundisi Khumalo

5. Explain reasons people in Africa give for why they are sick?

6. Explain why the epidemic has spun out of control.

7.  Explain how the trucking industry (in general the economic activity of migrant labor) is connected to the HIV epidemic.

8.  What are people so willing to take this chance and engage in prostitution or trade favors for sex?

9. How is the powerlessness of women helping to spread HIV?  Explain.

10. What is the fate of kids who are born infected?

11. Why are drugs not given to mothers to prevent the spread of AIDS to their children?

12. Who takes care of the orphans left by the AIDS epidemic?

13. How do the orphans affect the crisis in Africa?

14.  How do you change the tide of this epidemic?