{"id":6733,"date":"2002-09-11T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2002-09-11T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2002-09-11T21:00:37","slug":"virus-damned-virus-and-statistics-the-epidemic-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/6733","title":{"rendered":"Virus, damned virus, and statistics: the epidemic in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graham McKerrow, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40 million people are living with HIV<\/li>\n<li>94% of PLWHA are in developing countries<\/li>\n<li>3 million died with AIDS in 2001<\/li>\n<li>1.7 million died of TB the previous year<\/li>\n<li>1 million were killed by malaria that year<\/li>\n<li>HIV has been recorded in almost every country<\/li>\n<li>Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa have HIV prevalence in adults over 20%<\/li>\n<li>In four of those countries one in three adults has HIV<\/li>\n<li>Prevalence rates can reach 50% in major cities like Francistown, Gabarone or Mbabane<\/li>\n<li>GDP has fallen 2.6% in countries where prevalence is more than 20%<\/li>\n<li>By 2020 more than 25% of the workforce in some countries may be lost to AIDS<\/li>\n<li>In Kenya AIDS accounts for three out of every four deaths in the police force<\/li>\n<li>By last year 13.4 million children had lost one or both parents to AIDS<\/li>\n<li>By 2010 that figure will be 25 million<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of all new infections are among people aged 15 to 24<\/li>\n<li>More than two million young people were infected last year<\/li>\n<li>In two years, reported annual HIV infections in Russian IDUs aged 10 to 19 rose from 300 to 10,000<\/li>\n<li>Without comprehensive intervention another 45 million people will have HIV by 2010<\/li>\n<li>If rich and poor countries keep their promises, 29 million of these infections could be avoided<\/li>\n<li>Delaying this response by one year will cost five million lives<\/li>\n<li>$2.1 billion has been promised to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria<\/li>\n<li>Only $300 million has been received by the fund<\/li>\n<li>$3 billion is needed to respond to TB and malaria alone<\/li>\n<li>Less than 1% of PLWHA in developing countries can access ART<\/li>\n<li>28 million Africans have HIV<\/li>\n<li>Only 30,000 Africans receive ART<\/li>\n<li>230,000 people receive ART in developing countries<\/li>\n<li>Half of them are in one country: Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Less than 4% of people who need ART in the developing world can access it<\/li>\n<li>WHO wants 3 million more people treated by 2005<\/li>\n<li>Africa faces a shortfall of 2 billion condoms<\/li>\n<li>The Global Fund has promised $1.6 billion over five years for treatment and prevention of the three diseases<\/li>\n<li>These Global Fund dollars will double the number of people on ART in developing countries<\/li>\n<li>These Global Fund dollars will increase six-fold the provision of ARVs in Africa<\/li>\n<li>There are 200,000 AIDS orphans in Haiti<\/li>\n<li>750,000 babies are born with HIV every year<\/li>\n<li>30 presidents or deputies have taken direct command of their national AIDS responses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: the World Health Organisation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNAIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham McKerrow, HIV i-Base 40 million people are living with HIV 94% of PLWHA are in developing countries 3 million died with AIDS in 2001 1.7 million died of TB the previous year 1 million were killed by malaria that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}