AIDS Update: latest figures and AIDS video

Most of the figures are from UNAIDS or other official sources including reliable in-country surveys.

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

Global Situation

• 85 million HIV infections total by 2007
• HIV / AIDS kills more than any other infectious disease
• 45 million men, women and children alive with HIV
• 40 million AIDS deaths
• 5 million new HIV infections a year
• 2% of global population 15-45 years carries HIV
• More than 90% with HIV are in the poorest nations
• 20 million children under 15 lost mothers to AIDS
• 60% new infections are women
• Half of all infections are in people under 25 years old

S E Asia

• 5-11 million have HIV in India alone. Epidemic in far earlier stage than Africa

China

• Hard to be certain of situation
• Rapid spread among drug users and now into general population

India

• More cases of HIV than any other country
• African-style spread at huge speed among 1.2bn population (50 times Uganda).
• Absence of high profile national campaign.
• 2.5% infected in Bombay with HIV. Active STDs carried by 48%.
• Up to 1000 new infections a day in Bombay
• Numbers with HIV in India by 2015 could exceed that in all Africa today

US

• 1 million HIV infections to date increasing by 20,000 a year (down from 100,000 a year). To compare, the ten year Vietnam war claimed 50,000 US lives.

Africa

• AIDS biggest single cause of death
• 25 million people have HIV
• 5% of all people aged 15-49
• More women infected than men

Botswana

• 40% pregnant women have HIV in some urban areas
• Average is 18%

Uganda

• 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.