The life-threatening virus HIV/ AIDS is omnipresent in all segments of Africa.
It can be said that not the whole of Africa, but the most affected part is the Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa has been estimated to have more than 60% of AIDS infected population but something more shocking is that 12% of the world’s population is inhabited in Africa.
Tuberculosis is the world’s greatest infectious killer in women of reproductive age and the leading cause of death among people with HIV/ AIDS. There are many reasons for the spread of HIV/ AIDS in Southern Africa one being the stigma attached to admitting to HIV infection and to using condoms.