Hello everyone
I'm the blog leader for this week. With the class having prior class discussions on Africa and their various forms of media coverage there, I can across an interesting article from BBC. More than one in five adults in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho is HIV-positive, making it one of the countries worst hit by the Aids pandemic. You hear about the continent of Africa battling with the AIDS epidemic, but you rarely hear about what part is being effected specifically. We haven't disused much about Lesotho in class so I thought this would be an interesting topic to be brought up for discussion. In this article BBC stated that each year an estimated 23,000 people die of HIV-related causes, from a population of less than two million. The average life expectancy at birth is estimated to have dropped to levels last seen in the 1950s. It is now below 50 years for the region as a whole, 35.2 years for Lesotho. Over the next six months, the BBC will follow the lives of seven people from the community of St Rodrigue, 40km south of the capital, Maseru, as they struggle to live with the HIV crisis.
The link to the article is listed below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7703032.stm
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I'm very interested to see how this documentary turns out. It seems like we all "pretend" to know about the HIV situation in Africa, but I'm not sure we have accurate depiction. The BBC has a good history with producing well made news/documentaries, so it should turn out well. Hopefully, this will shed some light on the topic for people around the world and also, possibly, help educate other Africans within the area.
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