Zimbabwe’s HIV/AIDs statistics

March 31st, 2007 | Africana, Global

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More people die in Zimbabwe every day than in Darfur or Iraq, but we are dying silently and the world doesn’t seem to know how bad it really is.

Zimbabwe’s HIV/AIDs statistics are among the highest in the world and this terrible pandemic, combined with a lack of drugs in our country, corruption by government ministers, food shortages and 1,800% inflation, makes it a swift killer in our society. Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 34 years for women and 37 years for men.

I would really like you to think about that for a moment. How old are you? How much longer would that leave you to live or have you already exceeded our life expectancy?

End of extract from Sokwanele’s Sky News Blog