1st challenge - AIDS/HIV

Check this out: South Africa has to face an adverse challenge now and in the future - AIDS, in other words the HIV, is threatening South Africa's future as it has already destroyed generations of South Africans and left another generation as orphans. Read here about the situation and what South African authorities do to cope with this challenge: HIV & AIDS in South Africa on the pages of Avert (Avert is an AIDS charity).

Watch this emotional, shocking, and depressing documentation by CNN ("Inside South Africa", 8:57 Min.):



Read here about the death of Nelson Mandela's son caused by AIDS at Reuters.

ASSIGNMENT:
Note down and be able to present the relevant pieces of information with the help of
(a) a systematic graphical representation on the blackboard,
(b) an outline on a transparency,
(c) a poster, or
(d) a computer-based presentation.
Key issues: situation, specific problems, reasons, strategies to deal with the problem, future prospect - situation in Africa in general and in some countries in particular (Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and Lesotho).

ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENT:
Be alert and be concerned: The fight against AIDS & HIV of dieing Nkosi Johnson, his speech at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, and the coverage in Time Magazine (you may use other reliable pages with impressive images and statements).