Care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS

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AIDS in a new millennium: a grim picture with glimmers of hopeAltogether, there are now 16 countries in which more than one-tenth of the adultpopulation aged 15–49 is infected with HIV. In seven countries, all in the southerncone of the continent, at least one adult in five is living with the virus. In Botswana,a shocking 35.8% of adults are now infected with HIV, while in South Africa, 19.9%are infected, up from 12.9% just two years ago. With a total of 4.2 million infectedpeople, South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in theworld. While West Africa is relatively less affected by HIV infection, the prevalencerates in some large countries are creeping up. Côte d’Ivoire is already among the 15worst-affected countries in the world; in Nigeria, by far the most populous countryin sub-Saharan Africa, over 5% of adults have HIV. The prevalence rate in other WestAfrican countries remains below 3%. Infection rates in East Africa, once the higheston the continent, hover above those in the West of the continent but have beenexceeded by the rates now being seen in the southern cone. The prevalence rateamong adults in Ethiopia and Kenya has reached double-digit figures and continuesto rise.These rises are not inexorable. Uganda has brought its estimated prevalence ratedown to around 8% from a peak of close to 14% in the early 1990s with strong preventioncampaigns, and there are encouraging signs that Zambia’s epidemic may befollowing the course charted by Uganda (see Box 1, page 10). Yet, even in thesecountries, the suffering generated by HIV infections acquired years ago continues togrow, as millions of adults fall ill and die and as households, communities and wholesectors of the economy stagger under the burden.Uganda’s was the first government on the continent to recognize the danger of HIVto national development. Acknowledging an explosive epidemic in the general populationvery early on, President Yoweri Museveni took active steps to fight its spreadthrough action by the Government and other groups in society, including religiousleaders and community development organizations, which were encouraged totackle HIV and AIDS in ways that made best use of their particular skills. This broadbasedapproach to the epidemic contributed to a reduction in HIV infections amongyoung pregnant women living in towns and cities, as recorded in the 1998 Report onthe global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Gratifyingly, data from a large community-basedstudy now show a similar fall in infection rates in rural Uganda. Figure 1 shows thatthe HIV prevalence rate among 13–19-year-old girls has fallen significantly over aneight-year period, while the rate in teenage boys – always much lower because boysare less likely than girls to have partners in the older, more heavily infected agegroups – has remained roughly stable. A large increase in condom use (see pages59-64) probably contributed to these lower rates of infection (and to the significantdecline in teenage pregnancies which accompanied it).9
Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic – June 2000Figure 1.HIV prevalence rate among 13–19-year-olds,Masaka, Uganda, 1989-199754.54HIV-infected (%)3.532.52girlsboys1.510.501989/90 1990/91 1991/92 1992/93 1993/94 1994/95 1995/96 1996/97Source: Kamali et al. AIDS 2000, 14: 427-434In Zambia, the Government has been trying to involve all sectors in HIV prevention,from health to education, agriculture and industry. Religious leaders and churchgroups have also been playing a part in prevention. New data from Zambia’s HIV–––>Figure 2. HIV prevalence rate among pregnant 15–19-year-olds,Lusaka, Zambia, 1993-199835Box 1. A measure of success: reduced HIV ratesin young Zambian women3025HIV-infected (%)20151993199419981050Chelstone Chilenje Kalingalinga MateroSource: Ministry of Health, Zambia, 1999Clinic10
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