Facts About HIV AIDS

Facts About HIV / AIDS Worldwide

Here are some important facts and figures about HIV / AIDS, ahead of the International AIDS Conference to be held in Washington on July 22 to 27.

HIV WORLDWIDE
About 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

NEW INFECTIONS
An estimated 2.7 million people worldwide are newly infected with HIV in 2010.

NEW TRENDS OF INFECTION
Since 2001, the annual HIV declined in 33 countries, 22 of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.
HIV is increasing in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

DEATH DUE TO AIDS
Most deaths are 2.2 million people in 2002. About 1.8 million people died of AIDS in 2010.

TREND OF DEATH
Between 2001 and 2010, AIDS-related deaths increased more than 11-fold in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (from about 7,800 to 90,000), and more than doubled in East Asia (from 24,000 to 56,000), the WHO said.

In the Middle East and North Africa, AIDS-related deaths also increased by 60 percent (from 22,000 to 35,000).

TREATMENT ARV (Antiretroviral)
At the end of 2010, 6.6 million people taking antiretroviral drugs in low- and middle-income countries, or about 47 percent of the 14.2 million people whose immune systems are weakened to the point of needing therapy.

The new drug, which has been updated is expected to be announced on July 18 by UNAIDS.

PREVENTION OF DEATH
700,000 preventable AIDS-related deaths worldwide in 2010 because people taking combination HIV therapy.

HIV BAN ON US
World AIDS conference last held in the United States in 1990 in San Francisco. US bans people who are infected with HIV for a trip there. The ban was lifted by the US government in 2008 and 2009.

Source: WHO Progress Report 2011: Global HIV / AIDS Response; Health Affairs magazine, article by Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers, July 2012. (he / ik)