The HIV/AIDS pandemic and structural adjustment programmes (SAPs)The HIV/AIDS pandemic that started in the 1980s ground most of sub-Saharan Africa to a halt. By the new millennium, 75 per cent of all people infected with HIV and four in five deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, by the mid-1980s, Africa’s public debt was growing exponentially. Data sourced from https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-global-hivaids-epidemic/Discerning Coronavirus’s TerrainThe IMF is resounding the alarm on the levels of public debt in sub-Saharan Africa. It has therefore, been keenly focusing its strategies on ensuring that sub-Saharan countries service their debts.

Source: Daily Nation April 09, 2020 18:11 UTC