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AIDS Crisis in South Africa An estimated amount of 5000 HIV babies are produced everyday. Among forty two million, 20% are HIV positive, making South Africa the largest AIDS infected population throughout the world. This epidemic develops from the daunting background of the people in the third world country as the environmental condition is so poor and also governments’ efforts in approaching the problem had been disappointing. The main cause of AIDS deaths can be traced all the way back from the countries environmental condition. The terrain, mostly semi-arid, is aggravated by prolonged droughts which make it almost impossible to culture food staples. Starvation and low birth weight become wide spread, causing immune dysfunction and other severe health effects due to malnourishment. Though malnutrition is not a direct cause of AIDS, it should be considered as a necessary diagnosis and as a possible indirect contributing factor to AIDS, other than solely focusing on sexual relations as the only cause (Al-Bayati). Extensive studies have shown that the impact of malnutrition makes the victim more susceptible to HIV virus as a result of plummeted body immunity (Al-Bayati). “The nutritional aspect of HIV/AIDS has been ignored