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World AIDS Day
Dec. 1st, 2006 23:25World AIDS Day.
Heard this earlier today.
Estimated figures for my province - and this is not a big country...
Living with HIV/AIDS - around 270 000 people.
approximately 12 000 of whom are children
Estimates published in the annual “UNAIDS Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic” in 2006 estimates that currently 5.5 million South African adults and children are living with HIV/AIDS. South African women in the age group 15-29 are most at risk for HIV infection.
This data is also supported by the annual Department of Health Ante-natal clinic (ANC) surveys that showed about 30.2% of pregnant women were HIV positive in 2005. This in turn indicates that many thousands of babies would have been infected by their mothers in South Africa during 2004 to 2005. By the end of 2005, it is estimated that there were 1 200 000 AIDS orphans (mother or both parents lost to AIDS) under 15 years of age in South Africa. During 2005, 320 000 people died of AIDS in South Africa.
It's not the gay plague here or something that happens to drug abusers or prostitiutes, and I am offended by those people in the West who still refer to it as such. It happens to 'ordinary' people, sometimes whole families. Most of them are poor and have access to nothing but the bare basics in drug support. Which means they die sooner rather than later. Especially the children.
(ETA - didn't have a chance to research earlier)
Heard this earlier today.
Estimated figures for my province - and this is not a big country...
Living with HIV/AIDS - around 270 000 people.
approximately 12 000 of whom are children
Estimates published in the annual “UNAIDS Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic” in 2006 estimates that currently 5.5 million South African adults and children are living with HIV/AIDS. South African women in the age group 15-29 are most at risk for HIV infection.
This data is also supported by the annual Department of Health Ante-natal clinic (ANC) surveys that showed about 30.2% of pregnant women were HIV positive in 2005. This in turn indicates that many thousands of babies would have been infected by their mothers in South Africa during 2004 to 2005. By the end of 2005, it is estimated that there were 1 200 000 AIDS orphans (mother or both parents lost to AIDS) under 15 years of age in South Africa. During 2005, 320 000 people died of AIDS in South Africa.
It's not the gay plague here or something that happens to drug abusers or prostitiutes, and I am offended by those people in the West who still refer to it as such. It happens to 'ordinary' people, sometimes whole families. Most of them are poor and have access to nothing but the bare basics in drug support. Which means they die sooner rather than later. Especially the children.
(ETA - didn't have a chance to research earlier)
