This is a tough nut to crack. Central and West Africa are the worst hit. The only treatment is excision and closure, which can be disconfiguring, or amputation. Antibiotics have not yet worked.
Treatment is expensive, and long.
No race is immune. It is not communicable from patient to patient. Environmental factors appear to play a role. Ghana's Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research is playing a lead research role with the US Centers for Disease Control. We can all agree that HIV-AIDS is a terrible scourge, and that Africans are suffering in an unbearable way from it.