AIDS crops agricultural output.The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO FAO, n See Food and Agriculture Organization. ) and Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome have announced the release of a landmark report on the toll HIV/AIDS is taking on agricultural output in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where most of the region's 30 million HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. sufferers live in agricultural areas and up to 80% of the population may depend on farming for their subsistence. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the FAO, HIV/AIDS is depleting such regions of their agricultural labor force for generations to come. Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe are among the African countries hardest hit in their agricultural labor force and suffering the worst from what the FAO terms "food emergencies." |
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