A Situational Analysis Of Hiv/Aids On The Socio-economic Environment Of Orphaned Children In Kakuzi Division In Kenya

The HIV/AID is a pandemic as it affects people worldwide.The first recognized cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s. A number of gay men in New York and California suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. Beith national and international travel undoubtedly had a major role in the initial spread of HIV. In the US, international travel by young men making the most of the gay sexual revolution of the late 70s and early 80s would certainly have played a large part in taking the virus worldwide. In Africa, the virus would probably have been spread along truck routes and between towns and cities within the continent itself.

However, it is quite conceivable that .some of the early outbreaks in African nations were not started by Africans infected with the original virus at all, but by people visiting from overseas where the epidemic had also been growing.