AIDS in Africa

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AIDS in Africa. How to stop AIDS in Africa. The truth about AIDS in Africa. The History of AIDS in Africa. Huge number of useful links on AIDS in Africa. Economic impact of AIDS in Africa. Orphans and HIV treaments. Read on....

AIDS prevention works - we can stop the spread of HIV - lessons from Uganda - Video

Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon to audience in South Africa about how corporations can help stop AIDS. HIV prevention can produce huge falls in infection rates in teenagers

Order Free copies of "AIDS and You" book available now in English, Swahili, Luganda, Hausa, Spanish, French and Russian and many other languages, in bulk, to organisations for distribution in developing countries - from ACET International Alliance website, in partnership with OM. The widely acclaimed handbook "The Truth about AIDS" is available on the same basis. Save lives and care for those affected: donate to ACET online. $15 supports 10 AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe for a month; $130 supports a schools worker in Ukraine for a month; $50 pays for 150 books for project workers in India. You can also read the text of these books online (old editions).

"I will never forget my first trip to Uganda in 1988, to find out about AIDS in Africa. Coffin makers lined the road from the airport to Kampala. AIDS in Africa is wiping out tens of millions of men, women and children. I have seen the pain, grief and suffering - in the poorest slum areas and in the wealthiest districts. AIDS in Africa hurts everyone, but children are always the most vulnerable. Born with HIV from their mothers, infected through breast milk, or in the past through unsafe medical treatments, seduced by adults who want "safe" sex with virgins, often orphaned and destitute, having to build their own homes, grow their own food, and care for younger brothers and sisters. That is the cruel reality of AIDS in Africa. Yet AIDS in Africa can be beaten if we all pull together."

- Dr Patrick Dixon Founder ACET International Alliance

This site contains two entire books covering many aspects of AIDS in Africa, plus large numbers of other AIDS in Africa resources. AIDS in Africa - statistics, AIDS in Africa prevention programmes, AIDS in Africa - community action, Causes of spread of HIV / AIDS in Africa, Poverty issues and AIDS in Africa, Government responses to AIDS in Africa, Funding for AIDS in Africa, Political issues raised by AIDS in Africa, Civil war encourages spread of AIDS in Africa, Early symptoms of AIDS in Africa, AIDS in Africa - a Christian response and AIDS in Africa - mobilising churches.

AIDS IN AFRICA SUMMARY

Sub-Saharan Africa had 30 million people living with HIV/AIDS by early 2003 after 3.5 million new infections in 2002. 2.4 million Africans died in 2002. Ten million young people (aged 15–24) and almost 3 million children under 15 are living with HIV.

Very, very few with HIV or AIDS in Africa get antiretroviral treatment. Many millions are not receiving medicines to treat opportunistic infections.

Much greater numbers of people who acquired HIV over the past years aew becoming ill - it takes up to 10 years from infection to illness, so AIDS in Africa is often hidden. In the absence of massively expanded prevention efforts, the AIDS in Africa death toll will continue rising for another decade. The worst of the AIDS in Africa impact will be felt in the next decade and beyond. It is not too late to introduce measures to reduce that impact, including wider access to HIV medicines and help for the poor.

In four southern African countries, national adult HIV prevalence has , exceeded 30%: Botswana (38.8%), Lesotho (31%), Swaziland (33.4%) and Zimbabwe (33.7%). Food crises faced in the latter three countries are linked the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially on the lives of young, productive adults.

Yet, there hopeful signs that the epidemic of AIDS in Africa could eventually be brought under control. In South Africa, HIV prevalence rates fell to 15.4% in 2001 (down from 21% in 1998) for pregnant women under 20. Syphilis rates among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics also fell to 2.8% in 2001, from 11.2% four years earlier—suggesting that awareness campaigns and prevention programmes are working.

HIV prevalence rates are falling among young inner-city women in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Infection levels in women aged 15–24 attending antenatal clinics dropped from 24.2% in 1995 to 15.1% in 2001 (however, similar trends were not evident in outlying areas of the city, nor are they occurring elsewhere in the country). (Figures from UNAIDS).

Symptoms of HIV and AIDS - worried about yourself or someone you love?

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Dr Patrick Dixon explains about HIV symptoms: what happens when someone is infected with HIV. Early symptoms of AIDS. Risks of transmission? Why some people get infected with HIV and not others. Dr Dixon is a physician and founder of the international AIDS agency ACET, with prevention and care programmes in many of the poorest nations.

Background: Dr Patrick Dixon, author of these pages, first visited Uganda in 1988 to see at first hand the impact of AIDS in Africa. As a result, a new international organisation known as ACET (AIDS Care Education and Training) was started, with a particular focus on AIDS in Africa and a growing range of AIDS programmes based in Kampala Uganda (ACET Uganda).

Free copies of latest edition of "AIDS and You" books are available for organisations working in the poorest nations - while stocks last - from ACET International Alliance

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