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The Decline of HIV/AIDS: A New Paradigm in Sub-Saharan Africa?

The Decline of HIV/AIDS: A New Paradigm in Sub-Saharan Africa? FLORENCE SHU-ACQUAYE I. INTRODUCTION That Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV/AIDS than any other region of the world is no longer headline news. It is home to an estimated 24.7 million people living with HIV, representing around two-thirds of the global total. In 2013, around 1.2 million people died from AIDS and 1.5 million people became infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 15 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. The devastating impact of the disease is clear at all levels from government to households: HIV/AIDS reverses life expectancy gains, erodes productivity, consumes savings, weakens growth efforts and threatens the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Africa.1 In spite of the vast and corrosive impact of the epidemic, an encouraging trend has been emerging from the reported statistics. The 2012 UNAIDS Report2 on the global AIDS epidemic highlighted that in only 24 months, there had been a 60 percent jump in people accessing life-saving treatment with a corresponding drop in mortality. In 2014, 41 percent of all adults living with HIV had access to antiretroviral treatment, which is up by 23 percent in 2010. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of International and Comparative Law Edinburgh University Press

The Decline of HIV/AIDS: A New Paradigm in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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© Edinburgh University Press 2016
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FLORENCE SHU-ACQUAYE I. INTRODUCTION That Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV/AIDS than any other region of the world is no longer headline news. It is home to an estimated 24.7 million people living with HIV, representing around two-thirds of the global total. In 2013, around 1.2 million people died from AIDS and 1.5 million people became infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 15 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. The devastating impact of the disease is clear at all levels from government to households: HIV/AIDS reverses life expectancy gains, erodes productivity, consumes savings, weakens growth efforts and threatens the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Africa.1 In spite of the vast and corrosive impact of the epidemic, an encouraging trend has been emerging from the reported statistics. The 2012 UNAIDS Report2 on the global AIDS epidemic highlighted that in only 24 months, there had been a 60 percent jump in people accessing life-saving treatment with a corresponding drop in mortality. In 2014, 41 percent of all adults living with HIV had access to antiretroviral treatment, which is up by 23 percent in 2010.

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African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Aug 1, 2016

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