Battling Aids

Approximately 5 to 6 million South Africans are infected with HIV. Nineteen percent of the country’s adult population aged between 15 and 49 carries the deadly virus. Unfortunately, only one-third of the HIV infected South Africans have access to...

(Image: Map of Africa coloured according to the percentage of the Adult (ages 15-49) population with HIV/AIDS) The key to the rampant spread of HIV in the poorest parts of the world, like Africa, is the unavailability of cheaper ways of monitoring.