HIV/AIDS

How HIV/ADIS Rates Changes By Time and How People and Governments Respond To These Rates Especially In the Sex Field

How HIV/ADIS Rates Changes By Time and How People and Governments Respond To These Rates Especially In the Sex Field

Introduction

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, usually abbreviated as AIDS, refers to a specific combination of symptoms, in humans as a result of by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV virus, HIV)-induced destruction of the immune system occurs. When it comes to patients, it is a life-threatening opportunistic infections and tumors. This paper would focus on the study of how HIV/ADIS RATES changes by time and how people and governments respond to these rates especially in the sex field (Nicholas, Kemppainen, et al, 2007).

Discussion

HIV/AIDS around the world

Africa is the worst affected by AIDS. Following is the spread of HIV infections by region (update for end 2006)

2001

2003

2005

North America

950 000

1 million

1.3 million

Caribbean

400 000

430 000

330 000

Latin America

1.4 million

1.8 million

1.6 million

Western Europe

540 000

580 000

720 000

North Africa, Middle East

400 000

480 000

440 000

Sub (south of the Sahara) Africa

23.8 million

25 million

24.5 million

Eastern Europe, Central Asia

890 000

1.3 million

1.5 million

East Asia and Pacific

640 000

900 000

680 000

South, South East Asia

5.9 million

6.5 million

7.6 million

Australia, New Zealand

15 000

32 000

78 000

The numbers go back hardly. Nor is all the relief at the beginning, measured by the number of sufferers. End of 2006 there were 39.5 million (2004 = 39.4) HIV-infected people worldwide. Of which 2.3 million (2004 = 2.2) children under 15 years and about 10 million are young people between 15 and 24. World have in 2006 about 4.3 million (2004 = 3.9 million) people became newly infected, including 530 000 children (2004 = 640 000). In the same period, a total of 2.9 million (2004 = 2.7 million) people died of AIDS (Nicholas, Kemppainen, et al, 2007).

For comparison:

Exact figures for 2004.

Exact figures for 2005.

Aids in Germany, Belgium, Spain.

Aids in the EU (Nicholas, Kemppainen, et al, 2007).

The disease

The disease was probably transmitted from monkeys in Africa to humans (jungle people were eating their brains). The virus was first established in 1981 in San Francisco (USA) in the homosexual scene discovered and explored it (Nicholas, Kemppainen, et al, 2007). After an initial wave of fear that they could be infected by such a simple handshake, it turned out that it could infect only on certain routes: sexual intercourse and blood contact. Since then, more than 70 million people with HIV have been infected, of whom now ...