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| 1993 History |
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- In January, 116 new cases of AIDS were reported in the UK, bringing
the cumulative total to 7045. One in 6 of these new cases were acquired
through heterosexual intercourse.
- In Romania, number of children infected with HIV had increased, and
there was estimated to be 98,000 infected orphans.
- In March, the House of Representatives in the USA voted
overwhelmingly to retain the ban on the entry into the country of HIV
positive people.
- In south Africa, 322,000 people were infected were recorded to have
been infected with the disease.
- In early April the ministers of health and finance from 39
countries, met in Riga Latvia, and launched an initiative to contain the
spread of HIV in Central and Eastern European countries.
- The ninth International AIDS meeting was held in Berlin Germany. The
general feeling of the meeting was one of disappointment, as the issued
discussed once again was prevention of AIDS.
- At the end of 1993 the estimated number of AIDS cases worldwide was
2.5 million
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Region |
Estimated Adult HIV infection |
Estimated adult AIDS cases |
| Australasia |
>25000 |
5000 |
| North America |
>1 million |
400000 |
| Western Europe |
500000 |
125000 |
| Latin America & Caribbean |
1.7 million |
300000 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
>9 million |
1.7 million |
| South and South-East Asia |
2 million |
>75000 |
| East Asia and Pacific |
>35000 |
>1000 |
| Eastern Europe and Central Asia |
>50000 |
4500 |
| North Africa & The
Middle East |
75000 |
12000 |
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Total |
>14 million |
>2.5 million |
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| 1994 history |
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- In March, the actor Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man
with AIDS in the film Philadelphia.
- Official statistics for Brazil, with a population of about 154
million, indicated that some 46,000 cases of AIDS had been recorded but
estimates put the actual number at anywhere between 450,000 and 3
million cases. Two thirds of the known cases are in Sao Paulo state
where AIDS was the leading cause of death of women aged 20-35.
- By July, the number of documented AIDS cases by who rose up to
985,119. That is an estimated 60 percent increase compared to the amount
of AIDS cases in 1993.
- In early August 1994, the Tenth International Conference on AIDS was
held in Yokohama, Japan. It was the first of the International
Conferences to be held in Asia.
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| 1995 history |
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- By January first a total about a million cases has been reported to
the world health Organization.
- Later in the month the CDC announced that in the US, AIDS had become
the leading cause of death amongst all Americans aged 25 to 44.
- In March the VII International Conference for People Living with HIV
and AIDS was held in Cape Town, South Africa, the first time that the
annual conference was held in Africa. The conference was opened by the
deputy President.
- The South African Ministry of Health announced that some 850,000
people, 2.1 per cent of the 40 million population were believed to be
HIV positive.
- By the autumn of 1995 7-8 million women of childbearing age were
believed to have been infected with HIV.
- The WHO's Global programme on AIDS closed as planned on 31st
December 1995. They estimated that by the end of the century, 30 to 40
million people would have been affected by HIV.
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| 1996 history |
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- The new Joint United Nations (UN) Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS),
bringing together six agencies belonging to or affiliated with the UN
system - WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNESCO and the World Bank, became
operational on January 1st 1996.
- In the USA there had been a cumulative total of 81,500 AIDS cases in
New York
- In May the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first HIV
test kit that involved the collection of blood samples in a person's
home. Until then the FDA had insisted that all tests for HIV (whether
blood or saliva) had to be done under the supervision of health
professionals.
- In china, Over 100,000 cases of AIDS infection were reported.
- New outbreaks of HIV infection were erupting in Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, China and elsewhere.
- At the end of the year UNAIDS estimated that during 1996 some three
million people, mostly under the age of 25, had become newly infected
with HIV, bringing to nearly 23 million the total number of infected
people. In addition an estimated 6.4 million people; 5 million adults
and 1.4 million children, had already died.
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| 1997 history |
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- Early in 1997 it was reported that for the first time since the AIDS
epidemic began in 1981, the number of deaths from the disease had
dropped substantially across the USA.
- In July 1997 the CDC reported that it was likely that there had been
a case of transmission of HIV as a result of "deep kissing", although
other routes of transmission could not definitely be excluded. The HIV
positive man had sores in his mouth and gums which regularly bled, and
his female partner also had gum disease with inflamed and sore areas in
her mouth.
- In August, at a UNAIDS organised meeting in Nepal, an appeal was
made for urgent joint action by South Asian regional governments to
check the spread of the pandemic. Estimates of HIV/AIDS cases in India,
Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh and Nepal were put at 3 million, 350,000,
20,000, and 15,000 respectively.
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
reported that it believed that 40 million children in developing nations
would lose one or both parents to AIDS by the year 2010.
- It was also estimated that 2.3 million people died of AIDS in 1997 -
a 50% increase over 1996. Nearly half of those deaths were in women, and
460,000 were in children under 15. UNAIDS reported that they considered
that in terms of AIDS mortality the full impact of the epidemic was only
just beginning.
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