Why Is AIDS Having a More Dramatic Effect on Populations

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why is AIDS having a more dramatic effect on populations in sub-Saharan African than in North America and Europe?

• A) In sub-Saharan Africa, people have limited access to medicine that makes AIDS a manageable condition
• B) European and American populations are genetically predisposed to a lesser form of the disease
• C) people's sexual behaviors are radically different across continents
• D) the disease is spread via bacteria that is much more prevalent in Africa

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