African Colonialism and HIV

The article I found this week is about the spread of HIV through the colonization of Africa. The source and consequent spread of HIV has long been sought so that scientist and doctors may be able to isolate the exact strain that jumped from chimpanzee to human, ultimately in hopes of creating a vaccine or at the very least some new treatments. The article highlights the evolution of the virus and effect that colonization had on its spread. The most interesting thing that it points out is that had it not been for African colonization the virus could have and most likely would have died in the jungles of Cameroon long ago. You can acsess the artical here: African Colonization