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African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic Volume 6, Issue 10 NEWSLETTER October 2011 FEATURED ARTICLES HIV Costs May Hit $35 Billion a Year, Group Fears By Kate Kelland July 18, 2010 Reuters LONDON — The International HIV/AIDS Alliance warned on Saturday that the annual cost of tackling the HIV epidemic could balloon to $35 billion by 2030 if governments fail to invest in efficient, targeted and costeffective prevention measures. On the eve of an international conference on AIDS in Vienna, the Alliance said the AIDS virus, which already infects around 33.4 million people across the world, was a "costly time-bomb" for families, governments and donors. "For every two people who get treatment, five others get infected. At this rate, spending for HIV will rise from $13 billion now to between $19 and $35 billion in just 20 years time," Alvaro Bermejo, executive director of the Alliance, said in a statement. International AIDS Alliance brings together AIDS charities and advocacy groups from across the world. Bermejo said authorities running national AIDS programs around the world needed to increase HIV prevention by tackling the barriers that stop marginalized groups -- such as drugs users, prostitutes and gay men in some countries -- from getting HIV treatment and services. If they targeted resources at those most affected they could "cut more new infections and still have savings to put into scaling up treatment," he said. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is transmitted during sex, in blood and on needles and in breast milk. It gradually wears down the immune system and can take years to cause symptoms, and has killed 25 million people since the pandemic began in the early 1980s. The Alliance said its workers had seen how drug users in Ukraine are harassed when trying to get drug substitution therapy, and how doctors prescribing substitutes for them are jailed. In Africa -- the region most heavily affected by HIV, accounting for 67 percent of all people living with the virus -- its staff were seeing an increasing trend to criminalize men who have sex with men in countries such as Uganda and Malawi, it said. Measures such as offering clean needles or drug substitutes to injecting drug addicts and providing HIV testing and advice services to them can help to reduce the spread of the AIDS virus. Ukraine has one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics, mostly due to infection among drug users. Treating those with HIV with cocktails of AIDS drugs can also help to stop more people from getting infected, but AIDS treatment programs in developing countries are struggling to get the funding they need as wealthy donor nations cut budgets to reduce deficits following the global recession. Bermejo said the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of prevention programs for those at most vulnerable to HIV "are too often hindered by repressive laws, policies, human rights violations and discrimination and exclusion." He said HIV prevention steps should be taken as well as, and not instead of treatment services. Latest data from 2008 showed the annual number of new HIV infections was 2.7 million, the same as in 2007. This is down from 3.0 million in 2001. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38296744/ns/health-aids/ ☻☻☻☻☻☻ -38- Traditional African Clinic October 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa HIV & AIDS Statistics An estimated 22.5 million people were living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2009, including 2.3 million children. During 2009, an estimated 1.3 million Africans died from AIDS. Almost 90% of the 16.6 million children orphaned by AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. The estimated number of adults and children living with HIV and AIDS, the number of deaths from AIDS, and the number of living orphans in individual countries in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2009 are shown below. Country People living with HIV/AIDS Adult (15-49) prevalence % Women with HIV/AIDS Children with HIV/AIDS AIDS deaths Orphans due to AIDS Angola 200,000 2.0 110,000 22,000 11,000 140,000 Benin 60,000 1.2 32,000 5,400 2,700 30,000 Botswana 320,000 24.8 170,000 16,000 5,800 93,000 Burkina Faso 110,000 1.2 56,000 17,000 7,100 140,000 Burundi 180,000 3.3 90,000 28,000 15,000 200,000 Cameroon 610,000 5.3 320,000 54,000 37,000 330,000 Central African Republic 130,000 4.7 67,000 17,000 11,000 140,000 Chad 210,000 3.4 110,000 23,000 11,000 120,000 Comoros
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Sub-Saharan Africa HIV & AIDS Statistics<br />
An estimated 22.5 million people were living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2009, including 2.3<br />
million children.<br />
During 2009, an estimated 1.3 million <strong>African</strong>s died from AIDS. Almost 90% of the 16.6 million children orphaned<br />
by AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa.<br />
The estimated number of adults and children living with HIV and AIDS, the number of deaths from AIDS, and the<br />
number of living orphans in individual countries in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2009 are shown below.<br />
Country<br />
People living with<br />
HIV/AIDS<br />
Adult (15-49)<br />
prevalence %<br />
Women with<br />
HIV/AIDS<br />
Children with<br />
HIV/AIDS<br />
AIDS<br />
deaths<br />
Orphans<br />
due to<br />
AIDS<br />
Angola 200,000 2.0 110,000 22,000 11,000 140,000<br />
Benin 60,000 1.2 32,000 5,400 2,700 30,000<br />
Botswana 320,000 24.8 170,000 16,000 5,800 93,000<br />
Burkina Faso 110,000 1.2 56,000 17,000 7,100 140,000<br />
Burundi 180,000 3.3 90,000 28,000 15,000 200,000<br />
Cameroon 610,000 5.3 320,000 54,000 37,000 330,000<br />
Central <strong>African</strong><br />
Republic<br />
130,000 4.7 67,000 17,000 11,000 140,000<br />
Chad 210,000 3.4 110,000 23,000 11,000 120,000<br />
Comoros
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