AIDS is almost the same. I don't connect sex with disease. AIDS in Africa is not only impacting the physical well being of people. This epidemic is marring the social, economic and political lives of people. In a continent already ravaged by wars and crippled by poverty and challenged by social and political instability, the disease is being relegated to a back burner.
Orphans are more likely to be malnourished and less likely to get an education.
They are eventually used to form child armies like those that carried out the massacres in West Africa. The truth is that when AIDS claims the life of a parent, it usually destroys someone's childhood. Families, even whole villages are wiped out. Pools of skilled workers are drying up. AIDS seems to be cutting into the workforce.