Swaziland HIV/AIDS in Africa
as of 2011, hiv prevalence rate in swaziland highest in world @ 26.0 percent of persons aged 15–49. united nations development programme wrote in 2005,
the immense scale of aids-related illness , deaths weakening governance capacities service delivery, serious consequences on food security, economic growth[,] , human development. aids undermines capacities of individuals, families, communities[,] , state fulfill roles , responsibilities in society. if current trends not reversed, longer-term survival of swaziland country threatened.
the hiv epidemic in swaziland has reduced life expectancy @ birth 49 men , 51 women (based on 2009 data). life expectancy @ birth in 1990 59 men , 62 women.
based on 2011 data, swaziland s crude death rate of 19.51 per 1,000 people per year third highest in world, behind lesotho , sierra leone. hiv/aids in 2002 caused 64 percent of deaths in country.
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