From Colonialism to AIDS/HIV?!!!

                       

                  Who would've thought...?!!

While I was researching some of the social impacts the Berlin conference has left behind Africa.

This came up.

According to the book from Timberg and Haplerin, the HIV/AIDS pandemic became prevalent through the Scramble of Africa right after the Berlin Conference.

With large groups of colonists and technology moving into a land still practicing their ancient ways. It was only just a matter of time when a strand of the virus began to thrive, transferring from chimp to human.

As they traced the origin of the pandemic. They discovered the probable path of the HIV virus, originating from a small patch of dense forest in Cameroon.

In a sense, Western colonialism did not just affect the local people of the African region.

Due to the motivation behind the acquisition of resources and lands equates to the amount of power they hold as an empire, little did they expect the repercussions of the Scramble of Africa to this day, where an estimation of 36.7 million people were living with the HIV virus worldwide. 

Hence, this is the price that we have to pay as human beings for exploiting humanity in the past.