The AIDS problem in Africa is literally everywhere and has become an issue that cannot be ignored. Africans are affected directly and directly by the epidemic. Every homestead has been affected one way or the other.

With the death rate increasing because of the AIDS issue and related illnesses people are becoming more and more aware of the epidemic. The extent of the AIDS crisis is only now becoming clearer in many African countries. More and more people infected with AIDS are becoming ill and die. Without expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, it is expected that the AIDS death toll in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to rise. This means that impact of the AIDS epidemic on these societies will be felt most strongly in the course of the next ten years and beyond.

Effects of the disease continue to be evident in all sectors of society including, health, education, transport, agriculture, human resource and the whole economy. Poor African societies are most hit by the AIDS crisis and its consequences.

The AIDS problem in Africa has brought about many other problems to add to the already existing ones. More and more children are becoming orphaned and vulnerable because their parents die, the children deprived of their childhood to either take care of sick parents, play parents to younger siblings, go to work in order to live and some live in the streets.