Businesses are struggling to stay in business due to the AIDS epidemic because they are having trouble maintaining a steady flow of workers. For example, according to the statistics is stated previously, in Swaziland 342,606 people are infected with AIDS; that’s one-fourth of their people that are not working and if you take into consideration at least one family member caring for the sick person, half of their population is out of work. This is crippling to not only the business itself, but the country’s economic growth as a whole. If you look at it by ways of percentages, their unemployment rate is 50%. Our country is struggling with 9% unemployment; it is no wonder they are still stuck as 3rd world nations with an unemployment rate of 50%.
Farmers who are affected by the virus can not continue to grow and harvest their crops which puts their town or village at risk of not being able to eat everyday. As I said in my previous post, AIDS has a very destructive attitude; it is trying to bring everyone down by any means necessary. When it affects a farmer it cuts off the food supply to a whole town or village, making the deaths from starvation and malnutrition rise as well.
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