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AIDS
Statistics and Video
Most of the figures are from UNAIDS or other official
sources including reliable in-country surveys. See also video below.
AIDS prevention works - we can stop the spread of HIV - lessons from Uganda - Video Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, Founder of ACET, about how corporations can help stop AIDS. HIV prevention can produce huge falls in infection rates in teenagers
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Level of HIV infection among teenage girls was 22% and now 7%
Kenya
Business survey
found AIDS costs almost 4% of annual profits
GDP will be 15%
less than otherwise by 2005
South Africa
20% large parts of population has HIV
Zimbabwe
20% of population
has HIV. One antenatal clinic recently found 60% of pregnant
women in the area had HIV.
Prevention
Treatment of
STDs is highly effective. In a recent Tanzania study, six
communities with improved STD control had 40% fewer new HIV
infections than nearby areas. CIrcumcision also protects against HIV transmission
Condoms: Vietnam
40 million to 117 per year from 1991 to 1995
Thailand 15 million
condoms to 88 million from 1990 to 1992
Thai men have
reduced numbers of partners and practice more celibacy and
faithfulness - dramatic reduction in HIV rates among new military
recruits. Nationwide the annual rate is 25% of the 1990 level.
Uganda HIV rates
have fallen dramatically in young women.
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