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face higher mortality risks.
As the epidemic spreads the number of fatalities will increase as well, especially if drugs are not
made available to the infected, which is more often than not the case due to the exorbitant price
of antiretroviral drugs and the refusal of drug companies to allow cheaper generic versions.
The unusual infectious profile of the disease ensures its rapid spread. Unlike most other
infectious diseases, AIDS has an unusually long incubation period and a high infection rate. As
a result, HIV-infected people are asymptomatic and unaware that they are infected unless they
undergo serologic testing, by which time they will have transmitted the virus to others.
As the virus is transmitted from mother to fetus mortality rates for children under five have
exploded. In some African countries projections forecast a five-fold increase in children’s
deaths.
The weakened immune systems of those infected with AIDS have also increased the incidence of
infectious diseases throughout the population which has resulted in an upsurge of pneumonia and
tuberculosis throughout Africa.
The annihilating efforts of the Global Depopulation Policy have had their intended results
elevating the continent’s death rate to the highest levels in the world.
Crude Death Rate by Country (2006 data)
The crude death rate, defined as the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people, is nearly
three times higher in Africa than the global average of circa 8 per 1000.
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