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chief role in Africa's rising statistics. This information shows that improving Africa's poor conditions could be the support needed to lower the people being infected with the atrocious disease.

A possible solution for AIDS drugs is generics, which are low-cost, but effective, copies of original medicines. However, many companies are producing patents to prevent generics from being manufactured. Noble explains that the drug being produced to treat those infected with HIV in low- and middle-income countries is known as d4t, and it is still being tested and rejected due to its side effects. Another example of an antiretroviral drug is zidorudine (AZT). The AIDS drugs is interpreted as those that can help prevent HIV from developing into overpowering AIDS and possibly revive those who are despairingly ill. This declaration shows that there is hope in the drugs developing and with more progress they could be the answer to solve the AIDS problem. Many risks face the drug treatment meant to aid those in need such as monopolies between companies and the chance that a second wave of resistant virus spreading worldwide. An example of this chance is the disease of tuberculosis (TB) and the way its medications had been prescribed incorrectly, out of date, and falsely. An alternative to purchasing such high priced drugs is that these countries should simply create their own. On the other hand, many companies feel that other countries will embezzle the drug formulas and use them to harvest cheaper remedies. By purchasing these antiretroviral drugs is not the only cost facing people involved in the cure for AIDS; other costs such as salaries, supplies, and providing treatment factor into the AIDS drug equation. People supporting treatment do not want to cut corners on the project, and the cost in providing the proper treatment centers includes consulting rooms, storage, and equipment need to test for pregnancy, blood cell counts, and anemia.

The prevention of AIDS is a huge concern to decreasing the rate of people being infected each year worldwide. The first step in the prevention and awareness of AIDS is developing testing centers where people are able to get tested and learn their options. Many people who are infected with the virus can sustain a long, healthy life if provided with a healthy diet. Teaching safer sex or abstinence in schools, churches, and businesses in all countries is a vast step in the right direction in the prevention

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