AIDS is the worst form of STI a person can contract. Once the subject has AIDS it is incurable, and treatment is expensive. If treatment can not be accessed however this STI is fatal, causing around 1.8 million deaths annually. Of these deaths around 70% happen in Sub Saharan Africa. Diseases like HIV-AIDS seem to always hit the world's poorest people the hardest. This is mainly because of the lack of proper healthcare. Lack of education also plays a huge part as well. The people there should have knowledge of how one would get AIDS, and how to prevent it. Hope for AIDS orphans is a non profit organization that aims to helps to do just that. Hope for AIDS orphans takes money from donors to help take care of individual AIDS orphans. The money helps to pay for that child's medications and also helps to fund an Africa wide program that attempts to teach the people about protection against STI's. It is organizations like this that really make an impact in our world for the better.
If the people in Sub Saharan Africa had access to medication and proper education there would be no problem. In Canada we wouldn't see this problem because we are educated and have one of the best health care systems in the world. What we can do to help these poorer countries is donate to these organizations so they can be educated and treated.
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