ABSTRACT
As is well known, Sub-Saharan Africa has been devastated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Recent estimates (as of December 2004) by the World Health Organization show 29 million people infected, with an additional 2.5 million being infected annually and cumulative AIDS-related deaths at 13.7 million. Although only 10% of the world's population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 60% of the world's HIV-positive population resides there.[1,2] If the direct, immediate impacts of the epidemic were not enough, the longer-term consequences could be even worse.
