Graph with the class the information that each group finds and see if a pattern emerges. Finally, have students use this information to create a plea for more global assistance in fighting AIDS in Africa. Ask student groups to incorporate their original photo into a poster or flyer that they develop for this purpose. And with treatment prohibitively expensive, all 25 million Africans who are currently infected likely will die within 10 years. A person infected with HIV gradually loses the immune function, becoming less able to resist numerous ailments and cancers, which eventually result in death.
Victims frequently die of opportunistic infections or pneumonia.
A source of widespread, dreadful affliction and devastation, such as that caused by pestilence or war. Kenneth L. Watson, Ph.D., education consultant.