HIV hits the rich too

[nairiporter]

HIV/Aids hitting SA's wealthy
http://iafrica.com/news/sa/603015.htm

A five-year research study released on Tuesday has highlighted an increasing wave of HIV/Aids infections among the wealthy and educated in South Africa.

The HIV/Aids Risk Assessment by polling firm Markinor in partnership with the University of South Africa's Bureau of Market Research was released after five years of research into South Africans of "all walks of life", said Markinor director Mari Harris.

Harris said the country's first wave of Aids infections was seen among homosexuals followed by a second heterosexual wave concentrated in poorer, mainly unemployed people in rural areas.

"We're picking up that there might be a third wave of a higher educated, professional people who also have exactly the same risks as people in the lower ends of the Living Standards Measure (LSM)."

This held implications firms and banks with infected clients who had credit and investments.

Sapa

Comments

[georgiarepublic.livejournal.com]

Well, one possible positive aspect of this, the people with the power and money to facilitate the effort to eradicate HIV may take financing the search for a cure more seriously, instead of not caring because it didn't concern or affect them.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

The article was speaking about the rich in South Africa only. I don't think they have the financial capacity of some greater nations from whose investment in medical research the eradication of HIV really matters. In any case, the spread of HIV in more and more communities is not a good thing. And when it spreads among the supposedly most protected community, it is a sign that things have gone too far.