HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

On VOA (Voice of America), Although many of the articles on this website are from America, there was one article that caught my eye was an article on Youths with HIV and AIDS. The article is called “Adolescents Often Neglected in African HIV Programs”. According to this article, the World Health Organization says only 10% of young men and 15% of young women in Sub-Saharan Africa know if they have HIV or not. Also, over 2,000,000 adolescents ages 10-19 are living with HIV in the world, and over 70% are from Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is the amount of AIDS  Related Deaths in Africa.

The reason why this is happening is because some laws in Sub-Saharan Africa do not allow adolescents under 18 to get checked for HIV. This article is about ways in which people can help decrease the amount or at least make aware to people living with HIV and AIDS.talks about steps people can and are taking to help adolescents and adults find out their HIV status.
This articles 

The picture on the right is from the article. It shows the amount of AIDS-Related Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa  from 2005-2012. Many of these deaths were of people that were unaware of their HIV status.