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2004 Aids facts and figures

2004-07-07 11:40

Special Report

Don't cut Aids funding - UN
Don't cut Aids funding - UN

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned governments against using the economic crisis as an excuse to cut funding for fighting Aids.

  • US $12 billion will be needed by 2005 to effectively fight HIV/Aids in developing countries - but current annual global spending amounts to less than half (at under US$5 billion). By 2007, an estimated US$20 billion will be needed.

  • With 60% of the world's population, Asia is home to some of the fastest-growing epidemics in the world with 1.1 million new infections in 2003 alone - the most in a single year to date in Asia.

  • Although Africa is home to 10% of the world's population, it has 70% of people living with HIV worldwide. If current infection rates continue, without access to treatment, 60% of today's 15 year olds will not reach their 60th birthday.

  • Close to 38 million adults and children are living with HIV worldwide - an increase from 35 million in 2001. Over 20 million people have died of Aids over the past two decades.

  • Since the Barcelona Aids Conference in 2002, an additional 9.2 million people have become infected and 5.6 million people have died of Aids.

  • An estimated 15 million children under age 18 worldwide have lost one or both parents to Aids - 12 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Women account for nearly half of all people living with HIV and 57% in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Of the 10 million young people living with HIV worldwide, 6.2 million live in sub-Saharan Africa - 75% of whom are young women.

  • Prevention programmes reach fewer than one in five people who need them. Comprehensive prevention could avert 29 million of the 45 million new infections projected by 2010.

  • The current supply of condoms is 40% short of what is needed. By 2015, an estimated 19 billion condoms will be needed to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

  • Five to six million people need HIV treatment in low and middle income countries, yet only 7% or 400 000 people had access by end 2003. -www.unaids.org

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