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| 2003 History |
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- Swaziland was believed to have the world's highest rate of HIV with
almost four out of 10 adults infected with HIV. The Prime Minister
Sibusiso Dlamini said that the official rate had risen to 38.6% from
34.2% in January 2002. This figure was just under Botswana's rate 38.8%,
which is still officially the world's worst. But health officials said
that Swaziland's figures were already out of date.
- In February, a rare case of female-to-female sexual transmission of
HIV was reported. Doctors suggested the woman may have been infected
through sharing sex toys after drug resistance tests found striking
similarities between the HIV strains of the woman and her female
HIV-positive partner
- HIV/AIDS reduced the global population estimates by 0.4 billion to
8.9 billion for 2050.
- An expert group reaffirmed that unsafe sexual practices are
responsible for the majority of HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa.
This review was in response to claims made in 2002 that unsafe medical
practices were to blame for an important portion of HIV transmission in
Africa
- The World Health Organization declared that the failure to deliver
treatment to nearly six million people with HIV/AIDS in developing
countries was a global public health emergency. Only about 300,000
people in developing countries received the drugs at all, and in
sub-Saharan Africa, where 4.1 million people were infected, just over 1%
or about 50,000 people had access to antiretroviral treatment.
- The UNAIDS warned that the efforts to stem the world's AIDS epidemic
were 'entirely inadequate'. It was estimated that every day in 2003, an
estimated 14,000 people got infected with HIV. It was estimated that 40
million around the world including 2.5 million children were living with
HIV/AIDS.
- The World Health Organization announced a new
plan, known as '3 by 5', to provide HIV/AIDS treatment for many resource
poor countries. The plan had many different elements, but the WHO were
not planning tp provide the drugs themselves. WHO was hoping to have 3
million people in resource poor countries on AIDS drugs by 2005.
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| living with HIV/AIDS in 2003 |
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Estimate¤ |
Range¤ |
| Total |
37.8 |
34.6-42.3 |
| Adults |
35.7 |
32.7-39.8 |
| Women |
17 |
15.8-18.8 |
| Children <+15 |
2.1 |
1.9-2.5 |
| People newly infected with
HIV in 2003 |
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Estimate¤ |
Range¤ |
| Total |
4.73 |
4.17-6.34 |
| Adults |
4.1 |
3.6-5.6 |
| Children <+15 |
0.63 |
0.57-0.74 |
| AIDS deaths in 2003 |
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Estimate¤ |
Range¤ |
| Total |
2.9 |
2.6-3.3 |
| Adults |
2.4 |
2.2-2.7 |
| Children <+15 |
0.49 |
0.44-0.58 |
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millions || + means ages |
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Regional Statistics |
| Region |
Adults & Children
Living with HIV/AIDS¤ |
Adult
Infection
Rate (%) |
Deaths
of
Adults & Children¤ |
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
25.0 |
7.5 |
2.2
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| East Asia |
0.9 |
0.1 |
0.04 |
| Oceania |
0.03 |
0.2 |
0.0007 |
| South & South-East Asia |
6.5 |
0.6 |
0.46 |
| Eastern Europe & Central
Asia |
1.3 |
0.6 |
0.049 |
| Western Europe |
0.58 |
0.3 |
0.006 |
| North Africa & Middle East |
0.48 |
0.2 |
0.024 |
| North America |
1.00 |
0.6 |
0.016 |
| Caribbean |
0.43 |
2.3 |
0.035 |
| Latin America |
1.6 |
0.6 |
0.084 |
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Global Total |
37.8 |
1.1 |
2.9 |
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millions || Adult implies people between ages 15
and 49 |
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| General Conclusions |
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- Between 1981 and 2003 there had been about 20 million lives lost to
AIDS, and about 12 million people where orphaned by the epidemic in the
sub-Saharan Africa.
About 6000 young people (between ages 14 - 24) are infected daily world
wide.
- By December 2003, about 50 percent of all those living with AIDS
were female and about 57 percent of the total AIDS victim were in the
sub-Saharan Africa
- An estimated five million people in low and middle income countries
do not have the AIDS drugs which could save their lives.
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| 2004 history |
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- In February, the president of Malawi, Bakili Muluzi announced that
his brother had died from AIDS. This was intended to highlight issues of
stigma and discrimination in talking about HIV/AIDS. President Muluzi
made the announcement as he launched the first AIDS policy in a country
where an estimated 15% of the 15 million population were HIV-positive.
- In April, the Chinese government announced that it was starting to
offer everyone free HIV tests. South Africa began a programme to give
out free HIV/AIDS drugs after years of confusion and delays. The program
started in South Africa's richest province, Gauteng, where five major
hospitals, including Chris Hani Baragwanath, the largest in Africa, were
selected to administer the drugs.
- A survey of US media coverage of the AIDS epidemic revealed that the
number of AIDS-related stories peaked in 1987. This rapidly declined in
the early 1990s, despite these being the peak years for AIDS deaths. The
stories increased slightly in 1991, when Magic Johnson spoke publicly
about his HIV-status. The amount of stories revived again in 1996-7 with
the introduction of combination therapy.
- In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of
deliberately infecting children with HIV were sentenced to death by a
Libyan court. The medical staff were detained in 1998 and the trial
started in 2000.
- Between July 11 - 16, the XV (fifteenth) International AIDS
Conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand.
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| Related Media |
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| The XV international AIDS conference was held in
Bangkok Thailand in 2004. The official web casters of the event was the
Kaisernetwork.org
and we were able to get the following videos with permission from the
Kaisernetwork.org: |
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| Plenary
Session Pl02: Scaling Up Access to Treatment |
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[ no photo]
player :
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
Copyrights :
kaisernetwork.org |
In the plenary session there were lots of discussions, amongst the
discussions was possible ways of improving antiretroviral drugs.
[ watch
cast video ]
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