Perpetrators

The people within the country are responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDs and continuing poverty.  People infected with the disease who do not know how to deal with it or how it spreads are the main reason so many people are infected.  Due to the lack of education in the country people do not know when they have the disease, how they got it and how it can spread, how they can get help and what to do with themselves when they contract it.  This leads to people continuing to have unprotected sex after they have contracted the virus with continues the spread of HIV/AIDs.  No one person is the cause of the HIV/AIDs pandemic it is the country on a whole that needs to unite in a common goal against this virus.

 Poverty within the country is a similar story.  It is a vicious circle that is difficult to break with the HIV/AIDs pandemic making the situation even worse.  The life expectancy in Lesotho is only 40 years old, so most children loose their parents when they are still at a very young age.  Due to this they are forced to drop out of school as young as 5 years old to go to work to support younger siblings and relatives who are caring for them.  Their uncompleted education does not allow them to qualify for better well paying jobs when they get older so they are forced to do hard, low paying, manual labor for the rest of their life, continuing the circle of poverty.  Unless a child is able to break free from this circle by managing to stay in school and receive their education, it is likely the circle will continue for the generations to come.