HIV/AIDS is a retrovirus that attacks the immune systems weakening it over time. HIV infects the cells of the immne system impairing thier ability to function or distroying them entirely.

An estimated 33.4 million poeple worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS.

22.4 million of these are in Sub-Saharan Africa. That's about 67% of the global HIV/AIDS epedenic.

An Estimated 1.4 million Africans die each year from the epidemnic.

That's approximately 3,836 people dying each day from a treatable disease.

HIV/AIDS can be treated with anit-retroviral drugs that slow the spead of the virus through the immune system.

Like Artemisinin-based combination therapies used to treat malaria, anti-retroviral, or ARV, therapy uses a combination of ARV's to keep the HIV/AIDS virus at the lowest possible level in the body.

This allows patients to live a full and healthy life.

There are currently twenty different forms of ARV's available throught the world. However not all drugs are available in all countries.

A typical treatment scheme requires a patient to take two tablets a day and cost around 40 cents.

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