Can you name the countries with the highest adult HIV/AIDS infection rates?

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AIDS/HIV Infection Rates Quiz

by davidr

Created Dec 1, 2008 in Geography
Featured Dec 1, 2008
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	springmom:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:46 GMT	55 points
	Wow. Got 'em all, including 6 bonus answers. The sad thing is that most of them are in the same vicinity. Hopefully, the researchers are getting closer to finding a cure. Now, if we could only find a fool proof way of stopping the spread. This is a quiz that I would rather not see, but kudos to Sporcle for helping to raise awareness that could lead to a cure.

	Tchaikovsky08:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:46 GMT	50 points
	It is just so depressing that Africa completely dominates this list

	nearlyextinct:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:58 GMT	28 points
	Basically it is African Countries south of the Sahara and Hati.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:59 GMT	18 points
	This is a fun and yet sad quiz. It's unbelieveable to think that over a third of people in Botswana and Swaziland have AIDS. Speaking of bonus answers, though, I got ten of them. How many are there?

	mosfunky:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:02 GMT	7 points
	yeah i got 10 bonus answers as well. once i got one i figured i'd look for more. yay for bonus answers.

	Jimmy Bojangles:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:47 GMT	17 points
	Wow I just came back from United Nations: World AIDS Day at Harlem and found this quiz. Nice to know people are aware of today.

	sammyhain2364:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:23 GMT	14 points
	Only missed Sierra Leone guessing that's the only African country I missed guessing. Found ten bonus answers: Russia, India, USA, France, Mexico, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany & China. Were there any others? Interesting but yet sad quiz realizing that there's one entire continent that's being decimated by this disease.

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	Bethannie:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 09:02 GMT	16 points
	Good quiz to have today, also noted how much of it is naming African countries.Sad.

	C_W_Browne:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 11:02 GMT	3 points
	What were the 6 bonuses. I only got 4. This quiz depresses me a little bit.

	albagobragh:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 11:04 GMT	18 points
	The thing about AIDS/HIV in these countries is it generally isn't passed on through homosexual encounters like most people imagine this disease is spread, but rather by females being gang raped and getting the infection by this means and then having sex with other people, or by having children and the child being born with it thus further spreading this pandemic.

	EchoPark:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 11:41 GMT	21 points
	nearly 40 percent of the people in Swaziland have AIDS or HIV. ****ing insane.

	Bretzky:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 11:47 GMT	15 points
	It's not surprising that African countries dominate this list as HIV made the jump to humans in West Central Africa. Plus, African countries don't have the medical infrastructure necessary to combat the disease and the constant conflict helps spread it around rather easily. Disease almost always follows war.

	organicearthmama:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:29 GMT	30 points
	It's so sad to do this quiz; I am young enough that I don't remember a time when we didn't know about this disease, but I am ashamed to admit that I didn't realize until now just how bad this pandemic is. Wow. Those poor people. Thanks, sporcle, for opening at least one pair of eyes today.

	tiganeman:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:34 GMT	14 points
	Scary stuff. 38.8%. Good quiz.

	Tim Allen:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 13:20 GMT	21 points
	Kudos to Sporcle for helping to bring awareness to the day. If the site had a green up arrow, I'd be clicking it now.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 14:24 GMT	5 points
	China has just 0.1% and a lot of Chinese don't have the living conditions or preventions that western countries does. How do they keep it so low? Sad but predictable that Africa would dominate this.

	Matt8204:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 14:44 GMT	6 points
	6 out of 20. Amazing how many African nations are on this list. I actually guessed a lot of countries that weren't in the Top 20. I was a little surprised that the U.S rate is "only" 0.8 percent, but that still means there are about 2.4 million people with HIV/AIDS. How tragic.

	radiosilence:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 14:54 GMT	20 points
	Life expectancies... Swaziland is 32.5 years for males. Botswana is 33.9 years. Lesotho is 35.5 years. I would be downright ancient in many of those countries. By comparison, Haiti is 51 years and Sierra Leone is 57. Angola isn't even on this list with its 4% AIDS rate, and the life expectancy there is 37.3 years.

Rank	Country	Rate
11.		6.3
12.		5.6
13.		5.3
14		5.2
15		5
16.		4.7
17.		3.6
18.		3.4
19.		3.4
20.		3.4
55=	3.4
59=	3.4
71=	3.4
77=	3.4
82=	3.4
82=	3.4
91=	3.4
108=	3.4
108=	3.4
108=	3.4

	BJ Sorensen:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 18:17 GMT	1 point
	Got 13 plus ten bonus answers. Really great quiz!

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	getahaircut91:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 21:04 GMT	0 points
	actually .6% of the US is .006*300,000,000 people for 1.8 million infected

	Tom:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 23:24 GMT	7 points
	Most enlightening. Thank you.

	hi19hi19:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 04:13 GMT	5 points
	I love how in this quiz, when you check the answers the ones you picked turn green. That's such a great effect, I wish it could be implemeted in every quiz on the site!

	davidr:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 04:56 GMT	27 points
	@redalert: The most common way that HIV/AIDS is transmitted throughout the world is through heterosexual sex. Although the disease first came to prominence in the west in gay men, heterosexual women are actually most at risk. The AIDS pandemic in Africa isn't caused by gang rapes — it's mainly passed on by people in ordinary, consensual, heterosexual relationships who don't know they have the disease and infect their partners (note that, if 30% of your population has the disease, there's a 42% chance that a randomly chosen man and woman will consist of one person with AIDS and one without; the latter is then very likely to catch the disease from his or her partner). Mother-to-child transmission is also a major vector. There is some hope, though: I heard a documentary on the BBC World Service yesterday that said that heavy use of anti-retrovirals during pregnancy can reduce the chance of a child catching AIDS from his or her mother to around 10%, which is still high but much better than the case without the drugs.

	slw@hwdyk.com:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 13:21 GMT	2 points
	what springmom said

	Blue_Iguana:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 02:32 GMT	9 points
	man, its depressing when you get more bonus answers than actual ones.

	davidr:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 05:27 GMT	10 points
	Heh. Sorry, tomato. :-) I figured I'd include plenty of bonuses to show where the larger and richer countries fit into the picture.

	cassykins:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 17:22 GMT	6 points
	This is so sad, but thank you for making this. I think when you put a location and a percentage to the disease, it makes it more real. I hope more people are inspired to help.

	Augustulus:	Dec 4th, 2008 at 13:42 GMT	3 points
	@getahaircut91: Yes, I know.. And 1,8 million infected is 600,000 fewer than the 2,4 million infected that Matt8204 calculated with a percentage of 0,8%

	PHI:	Dec 4th, 2008 at 14:02 GMT	3 points
	How many bonus answers are there???? I got 10 of them.

	davidr:	Dec 4th, 2008 at 22:15 GMT	2 points
	@PHI: I think there were ten but I honestly can't remember.

	UDMM:	Dec 8th, 2008 at 17:23 GMT	3 points
	wow. that is just a brush-up for countries of africa. shame

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	davidr:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 09:54 GMT	4 points
	@WarioBro: I refer you to the comment before the comment before yours. Once a quiz is published, there's no way for its author to find out what the bonuses are, short of asking the admins. I wrote this quiz about three weeks ago so I've forgotten what the bonuses were.

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	davidr:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 12:41 GMT	7 points
	I'd assumed that your question was whether those were all of the bonuses. For the third time, I think so but I can't remember. Is this really such a difficult concept?

	Arthur:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	-1 points
	I got them all and 10 bonuses.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 09:25 GMT	-3 points
	for those interested in what the bonus answers are here are the ones I got Russia, India, USA, France, Canada, U.K., Australia (There are 3 more i didn't get..maybe I will take it again and try and get those