[paulydavis]

Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize.

[mxcrossb]

> The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini

It seems countries like this could benefit massively from an effective vaccine

[est31]

> Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize.

I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Africa is the most affected continent of the HIV pandemic.

> Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total infected worldwide – some 35 million people – were Africans, of whom 15 million have already died. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

[dang]

If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, we will have to ban you. You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

Actually your account appears to be using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, so please don't.

[tremon]

Why do you immediately conclude it hasn't?

Far more likely are these factors:

- education reaches only a small part of the population

- condoms are unavailable

- condoms are too expensive

[spiritplumber]

Because it got drowned out by misinformation.

[africanboy]

same reason why education has not prevented covid-19 from spreading.