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AIDS - Epidemiology | | AIDS - Epidemiology: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Epidemiology | | | UNAIDS and the WHO estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) lives in 2005 of which more than half a million (570,000) were children.See also: AIDS, AIDS - Infection by HIV, AIDS - Diagnosis, AIDS - AIDS and HIV case definitions, AIDS - HIV test, AIDS - Symptoms and Complications, AIDS - The major pulmonary illnesses, AIDS - The major gastro-intestinal illnesses, AIDS - The major neurological illnesses, AIDS - The major HIV-associated malignancies, AIDS - Other opportunistic infections, AIDS - Transmission, AIDS - Prevention, AIDS - Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, AIDS - Prevention of blood or blood product route of HIV transmission, AIDS - Mother to child transmission, AIDS - Treatment, AIDS - Alternative medicine, AIDS - Epidemiology, AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS, AIDS - Alternative theories, AIDS - AIDS News | | | AIDS, AIDS - AIDS News, AIDS - AIDS and HIV case definitions, AIDS - Alternative medicine, AIDS - Alternative theories, AIDS - Diagnosis, AIDS - Epidemiology, AIDS - HIV test, AIDS - Infection by HIV, AIDS - Mother to child transmission, AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS, AIDS - Other opportunistic infections, AIDS - Prevention, AIDS - Prevention of blood or blood product route of HIV transmission, AIDS - Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, AIDS - Symptoms and Complications, AIDS - The major HIV-associated malignancies, AIDS - The major gastro-intestinal illnesses, AIDS - The major neurological illnesses, AIDS - The major pulmonary illnesses, AIDS - Transmission, AIDS - Treatment | | |
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AIDS - Epidemiology
UNAIDS and the WHO estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) lives in 2005 of which more than half a million (570,000) were children.[73]
Globally, between 36.7 and 45.3 million people are currently living with HIV (UNAIDS, 2005). In 2005, between 4.3 and 6.6 million people were newly infected and between 2.8 and 3.6 million people with AIDS died, an increase from 2004 and the highest number since 1981.
Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst-affected region, with an estimated 23.8 to 28.9 million people currently living with HIV. More than 60% of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, as are more than three quarters (76%) of all women living with HIV. [74] South & South East Asia are second most affected with 15%. AIDS accounts for the deaths of 500,000 children.
The latest evaluation report of the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level HIV/AIDS assistance defined as policy dialogue, analytic work, and lending with the explicit objective of reducing the scope or impact of the AIDS epidemic. This is the first comprehensive evaluation of the World Bank's HIV/AIDS support to countries, from the beginning of the epidemic through mid-2004. Because the Bank's assistance is for implementation of government programs by government, it provides important insights on how national AIDS programs can be made more effective.
The development of HAART as effective therapy for HIV infection and AIDS has substantially reduced the death rate from this disease in those areas where it is widely available. This has created the misperception that the disease has gone away. In fact, as the life expectancy of persons with AIDS has increased in countries where HAART is widely used, the number of persons living with AIDS has increased substantially. In the United States, for example, the number of persons with AIDS has increased from about 200,000 in 1996 to over 400,000 in 1996.
For more details on this topic, see AIDS pandemic.
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