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- More than 2.6
million people died from AIDS this year (1999)-- the highest number since
the epidemic began.
- 5.6 million
new infections this year.
- Global total infection 33.6
million.
- Since the beginning of the
AIDS epidemic in 1981 roughly 50 million
people have become infected in the world.
- Sub-Saharan Africa, now houses
almost 70 per cent of HIV/AIDS
sufferers.
- By the end of 1999, the
epidemic had left behind a cumulative total of 11.2
million AIDS orphans.
- Africa, women are worst hit by
the epidemic because it is more easily
transmitted from men to women, and in Africa,
girls are generally infected younger than boys.
- The virus is expected to
reduce life expectancy in southern Africa from 59
in the early 1990s to just 45 between 2005 and
2010.
- Over
4 million infected in India make it the
largest HIV-infected population in the world .
- In Mumbai, India
2.5 % of pregnant women are said to be
HIV positive.
- In Mumbai, India 40-50
% of Sex workers are said to be HIV
positive.
- In India 5-10
% of truck drivers/cleaners may be HIV
+ve.
- Tuberculosis may be
the presenting problem of AIDS in over 60
% of AIDS cases.
- Some 30,000 newborns in India
are infected every year with the human
immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS.
- 1.4 million males living in
urban India were HIV-positive, compared to
800,000 women.
- Out of 400 women attending
clinics in the city of Pune, one
fourth had sexually transmitted diseases, while
13.6 percent tested positive for HIV. 91 percent
of these women said they had only had sex with
their husbands.
- With an estimated 4
million South Africans - one of every 10 people
- already infected with the AIDS virus, the
epidemic poses a huge challenge to the country's
public health system.
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