[OC] Anteil der durch HIV/AIDS verursachten Todesfälle an allen Todesfällen in Botswana und Simbabwe
Von oscarleo0
[OC] Anteil der durch HIV/AIDS verursachten Todesfälle an allen Todesfällen in Botswana und Simbabwe
Von oscarleo0
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Data source: [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-deaths-aids?country=ZWE~Sub-Saharan+Africa~BWA](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-deaths-aids?country=ZWE~Sub-Saharan+Africa~BWA)
Tools used: Matplotlib + Gemini
Covid doing its best in the fight against AIDS.
Gotta hand it to George W. Bush
[President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief)
Didn’t they have a myth that having sex with a virgin cures HIV?
I had to google this and look into this. This is just crazy.
Grew up in Zimbabwe and my parents said that they basically watched an entire generation of people die from HIV/AIDS in the 90s and early 2000s. Many companies and organisations lost whole divisions to it.
As insane as this graph is, it still feels like it undersells what was on the ground. Anyone who grew up during the worst years of the AIDS crisis knows someone who was either infected or affected. A lot of families had multiple members who passed away from AIDS, and before the adoption of ARVs, a diagnosis was typically a death sentence.
It didn’t help that Zimbabwe suffered near unprecedented economic collapse around this time, which precipitated a similar collapse in the national healthcare system.
There was a joke that whenever a prominent figure died from AIDS, the state news would always announce that they „died after a long illness“.
All this doesn’t even go into the fears and stigma that the disease was associated with, which only worsened the issue.
The AIDS crisis in Southern Africa is an under- discussed topic globally, as are most things that happen there.
Is the dip because Covid killed people instead? Or due to diminished recording?
Hot take: If the data is in „whole“ percent (and not like 0.01% increments), using anything but 100% as the highest value immediately disqualifies it as beautiful.
Oh, thats why Bill Gates went there and circumsized a lot of dicks
20% is still really really high. And it’s concerning that the declined has leveled out
I think it’s crazy that despite all the money and time spent on AIDS research, we still can’t cure it.
I know curing something that has so many variants is difficult, but it feels like it should be a solvable problem.
Did they not know how it spread? I don’t know how easy/cheap it is to test for HIV but I feel like I would just be a virgin if this was happening around me. I guess eventually someone has to be having kids though
Perspective: COVID was responsible for about 1/8 of deaths in the US from March 2020 to October 2021 (the first time range I happened to find data for, but it approximates the heart of the pandemic well enough). And that was *really* bad.
This peak is about 5x that. The idea of *most* deaths in a whole country over whole years being from a single cause is crazy.