Like most primates, Koko is sensitive about her weight. Here she is standing on a scale while Penny reads the results. Koko knows that to control her weight, she has to watch both her caloric (ie, food) intake and her activity levels.
Changes in life expectancy in some hard-hit African countries between 1960 and 2012. HIV and AIDS affects economic growth by reducing the availability of human capital. Without proper prevention, nutrition, health care and medicine that is available in developing countries, large numbers of people are falling victim to AIDS. People living with HIV/AIDS will not only be unable to work, but will also require significant medical care.
As the disease kills parents and caregivers, it fuels poverty and despair among children and adolescents and stretches family resources. The impact of HIV and AIDS on children is seen most dramatically in the rising numbers of children and adolescents orphaned by AIDS.s of December 2007, children under 15 accounted for 290,000 deaths worldwide and 420,000 children were newly infected with HIV the vast majority through mother-to-child transmission of the virus.