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Essay heading: Forming Public Policy on AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
 
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At the end of 2004, 39.4 million people worldwide were estimated to be infected . No other area has been hit harder than the Sub-Sahara Africa region. Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world's population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV?some 25.4 million . Africa's AIDS challenge is a multifaceted problem which requires a unique, flexible, and multipronged approach...
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Education, prevention, and treatment are a necessary start but the United States must look deeper in order to effectively and properly help the communities of Sub-Saharan Africa. Current US policy under President George W. Bush is a massive change to previous policy. It commits 15 billion dollars of aid over a five year period...
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