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AIDS
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
UN AIDS figures for 2000
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5.3 million people newly infected with HIV
34.7 million adults living with HIV/AIDS
1.4 million children living with HIV/AIDS
3 million deaths from AIDS
2.4 million deaths from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
21.8 million deaths from AIDS so far
47% of HIV adults are women
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UNAids Report : "... in the eight African countries where HIV infection is most prevalent ... conservative analyses show that Aids will claim the lives of around a third of today's 15-year-olds".
Doctors in Malawi have reported that in the
absence of antiretroviral therapy and prophylaxis against opportunistic
infections, 90% of children born with HIV infection were dead within three years
of birth, and less than 1% had survived to their third birthday without
developing symptomatic illness.... In comparison, European research has shown
that only 18% of children had died after three years follow-up (with drug
treatment), and in the United States the probability that a child would survive
to the age of five was 75%....the death rate reported in Malawi may be
underestimated...
The first case of aids was
reported in 1981. Today, around 37 million people have contracted the disease,
with the main burden of new cases in developing countries. In some areas of
Africa, 60% of the local population have HIV/AIDS.
The disease is caused by the HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV), which weakens and eventually destroys the bodies immune system. The virus is transmitted through the transfer of bodily fluids. With the weakening of the immune system, death can follow from a normally non-fatal infection.
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