Southern Africa has the worst rates of HIV infection in the world, with an inexorable impact on family structures and children's lives. The exact HIV prevalence in Angola is unknown, but with the prospect of large numbers of refugees returning to the country, and large movements of internally displaced people and demobilised combatants, rates of infection are expected to increase dramatically.
| Country |
% Adults living with HIV
(Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic 2002, UNAIDS, July 2002)
|
% of population in need of food aid
(Regional food security assessments, SADC-FANR, 16 Sept 2002)
|
| Angola |
5.5%* |
15%** |
| Lesotho |
31% |
30% |
| Malawi |
15% |
29% |
| Mozambique |
13% |
3% |
| Swaziland |
33.4% |
24% |
| Zambia |
21.5% |
26% |
| Zimbabwe |
33.7% |
49% |
* This is an estimate. The exact HIV prevalence in Angola is not known, but assumed to be higher than this.
** Approximately 15 per cent of all Angolans currently depend on external food assistance to survive. (UN OCHA, Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Angola 2003, November 2002)
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