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.
According to the 2007 WHO/UNAIDS estimates, at the end of 2007, 33.2 million people were living with HIV. Some 2,5 million people became newly infected that year and 2.1 million died of AIDS, which maintains AIDS as a leading cause of death in Africa.More than 95% of HIV infections are in developing countries, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 28 million people are living with HIV.he disease is having a major impact on social and economic development. Poverty is increasing in many countries as households lose one or more breadwinners to AIDS. And both public services and private companies are reeling from the impact of HIV-related sickness and deaths among their workforce.