%0 Journal Article
%T Editorial: HIV Infection and AIDS in Africa - Issues, Lessons Learnt and Next Steps
%J Archive of "The Open AIDS Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.2174/1874613601610010014
%X Towards the end of the 1980s, and in the midst of a great public health challenge that appeared to threaten the whole existence of mankind, predictions of an apocalyptic end to the human race were being debated as the global family faced unprecedented and widespread deaths from the HIV and AIDS epidemic. The African continent which has borne the largest burden of people living with HIV infection was in particular severely affected by the epidemic and has since lost generations of its people from an epidemic that took advantage of its resource limited health systems which were unable to cope with the effects of HIV and AIDS
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893501/