one of the neatest things about it is that you actually can pick out certain trouble areas in specific and how they sometimes transcend borders, like the article notes is the case with...
one of the neatest things about it is that you actually can pick out certain trouble areas in specific and how they sometimes transcend borders, like the article notes is the case with matabeleland south in zimbabwe:
Chido Dziva Chikwari, a Zimbabwean-based infectious disease researcher with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South province is the kind of localized HIV hot spot that can be crucial in developing new strategies for fighting the epidemic. Chikwari, who was not involved in the study, and her colleagues have been working to understand why the province, home to around 700,000 people in an area the size of West Virginia, has the country's highest rate of HIV prevalence — 22.3 percent of the population is infected, compared with the national average of 14.6 percent.
A key driver, they've found, is economic migration: The province shares a border with an area in Botswana where the rate of HIV prevalence is at least 25 percent. Zimbabweans from the province, especially men, frequently travel there for work — and often pick up new sexual partners on the way.
Really interesting visualization. Thanks for posting this.
one of the neatest things about it is that you actually can pick out certain trouble areas in specific and how they sometimes transcend borders, like the article notes is the case with matabeleland south in zimbabwe: