How+AIDs+Increases+Poverty

=How AIDs Increases Poverty:=

Introduction:
AIDS can slow a community's economic development and learning at school. AIDS is killing 1,000 people every day in south Africa according to [|avert.com]. Without those people working on the economic development in their community, there will be no end to this global issue of poverty. The other key point I made earlier was that AIDS can slow learning at school. According to "[|UNH Student Looks at Economic Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in Africa] " by Janet Lathrop "AIDS is killing more and more highly educated adults" and "Not only do orphans not attend school...." From those two extracts from the article you can tell that since AIDS is killing the highly educated adults the orphans do not get the education they need to be successful in life keeping them from contributing to the community's development preventing the end of poverty. In this essay I will address the key points in more depth.

Development (human capital)
Development of communities is essential to avoiding or escaping poverty. According to the [|HIV and Development Programme] of the thirty million people infected with AIDS two thirds are living in sub-Saharan Africa, where the issue of poverty was brought about because AIDS was slowing down the community's development. The article goes on to say that of the estimated twelve million people who have died from diseases caused by AIDS, nine million were African. Now looking at the African people who have died directly from AIDS in the sub-Saharan area, and the poverty that results from AIDS all demonstrate that, AIDS has cause the Africans to become sick and die, because of they had died they were not there to contribute to the community's development, in such areas as gathering and growing food, developing a good basic educational system to get people better paying jobs, and making the community grow so that there are jobs that pay better wages. Because those people who have died from AIDS not being there to keep the community growing the situation of poverty was brought onto the people of sub-Saharan Africa.

Learning
Before development of communities can take place, proper education must be given to the members. According to "[|UNH Student Looks at Economic Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in Africa] " by Janet Lathrop "AIDS is killing more and more highly educated young adults, so the number of orphans has risen dramatically. Not only do orphans not attend school, but they pose an immediate drain on surviving family members and government social service resources. In Tanzania alone, an estimated 666,000 orphans needed help last year. Their highly educated parents had been the country's "hope for the future" group. There is very little light at the end of the drain of human capital in these nations, many ranked among the World Bank's ten poorest countries." Just by reading this section of the article you can see that because AIDS has killed the educated adults the orphans will not attend school or be taught by his/her educated parents, almost obliterating the chances of the orphans getting a decent job that could help develop the community and eventually rescue the people from poverty. One example of the effects of the deaths of the educated adults is according to "[|Poverty Facts and Stats] " by Anup Shah "Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names." You can see by that piece of the web site that nearly a billion people were at a disadvantage at the beginning of the present century because several communities could not provide the proper education that if taught, the people would have been better prepared to develop their community. The issue of people being unable to develop the community effectively because of the deaths of the highly educated adults all started with AIDS. Because AIDS has caused the highly educated adults to die and not be able to teach the community ways they can begin to develop the community, there is a slim chance that the people will be able to escape from their fatal situation of poverty.

Conclusion:
AIDS is a terrible disease that can keep a community from learning and starting it's development. It has killed educated adults who are called the "hope for the future" for some communities, keeping them from learning how they can improve their situation. It has killed the people who would have otherwise been working to develope the community and preparing it for the next generation. Overall AIDS is the guard to the prison of poverty.

Sources:
HIV and development Programme: Desmond Cohen's "Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa" 

Janet Lathrop "UNH Student Looks at Economic Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in Africa" <[|http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p01s02-woaf.html] >

Anup Shah "Causes of Poverty" <[] >

avert.com <[] >

By:Mac