Download PDF by Ian Knight: Queen Victorias Enemies (1)

By Ian Knight

ISBN-10: 085045901X

ISBN-13: 9780850459012

Whilst Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne in 1837, British troops had lately concluded a conflict in southern Africa opposed to the Xhosa humans, and the seeds have been already sown for a conflict with the Boers. while she died in January 1901 Britain was once combating the Boers in a single of the longest and most costly of the imperial colonial wars.

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Securing Our Future Introduction ub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region in the global AIDS epidemic. More than two-thirds (68%) of all people infected with HIV live in this region and more than three quarters (77%) of all AIDS deaths in 2007 occurred there. 3 million] the total number of people living with the virus. 1% of the adult population. Unlike other regions, the majority of people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women, accounting for 61% of those living with HIV and AIDS.

Securing Our Future - In South Africa AIDS accounted for 30Y&40% of all adult deaths in 2003-04, up from 10% in 1999-2000. 13). Women tend to die in the younger age brackets (ages 20-35), men in the older (ages 30-45). 3 Population growth rates will approach zero for some southern African ~0~ntrieS. (Projected annual population gtvwth rate (%)) 35 - Rntwml h most parts of Africa, the full impacts of AIDS will be felt in the Children, too, are dying at a higher rate, acquiring HIV before they are born or shortly thereafter, and not having the expected care as parents are sick or dead.

Wife inheritance and widow cleansing Some countries have begun to reform their laws in this area with complementary efforts to engage ethnic and traditional leaders. In 2005, for example, Zambia amended the penal code to make it illegal for any person to engage in harmful cultural practice such as widow cleansing. Securing Our Future Polygamy Polygamous behaviour has been considered one of the major factors promoting the spread of HIV in Africa, where higher rates of HIV infection often are found in areas with high rates of polygamy.

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