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 The rampant spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa is compounding the effects of Africa’s worst food shortage in a decade, according to the annual report released November 26 by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
While famine is common in many African regions and AIDS has become synonymous with the continent, experts are beginning too see the effects of their compounding influence on each other. Millions are at risk in both southern Africa and the Horn of Africa.
“Africans already struggle to cope with frequent food shortages,” says Hector Jalipa, World Vision’s regional HIV/AIDS advisor in Africa. “AIDS simply knocks any support system they could create out from under them.“
Dr. Jalipa is all too familiar with the combined effects of these two forces, known as “the ugly sisters.” Based in Nairobi, Kenya, he provides technical support to health and nutrition programs in Africa, including those focused on AIDS prevention.
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