Each day Vietnam has from 50 to 100 new HIV carriers, according to a report entitled “Considering the AIDS situation in Asia: Sketching an effective response” released by Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan and Dr. JVR Prasada Rao, Director of UNAIDS’s Asia-Pacific Regional Assistance Office, on May 20.
According to this report, AIDS is [...]
Up to 100 Vietnamese Contract HIV Daily
HIV Cases Rise in Germany
Germany experienced some 2,752 new cases of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, during 2007.
That’s an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the federal institute responsible for disease control and prevention.
While the number of infections decreased among three groups: heterosexuals, drug addicts, and immigrants from [...]
HIV Rising Among Baltimore’s Twentysomethings
Six years after city officials declared a “state of emergency” over Baltimore’s AIDS problem, a commission is calling for stronger prevention efforts to reverse an epidemic that remains one of the nation’s worst.
In a report released yesterday, the advisory panel said Baltimore is beset by rising infection rates among adults in their 20s. Meanwhile, African-Americans [...]
Report Shows 48% Hike In US HIV Cases
Reported new HIV infections in the United States increased by 48 percent in 2006 according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The stunning figures, in the CDC Surveillance Report, comes in advance of a long anticipated in depth review of HIV infections that was to have been released early this year [...]
Japan’s HIV infections hit record high in 2007
The number of people newly infected with HIV in Japan hit a record high of 1,048 in 2007, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time in history, Japanese media reported Wednesday.
According to a report released by the health ministry’s AIDS Surveillance Committee, the number of people developed AIDS in the year reached 400.
The total [...]
Statistics
Globally (as of 2007)
Number of people living with HIV
Total: 33.2 million
Adults: 30.8 million
Women: 15.4 million
Children under 15 years: 2.5 million
North America: 1.3 million (4% of total)
Caribbean: 230,000 (0.7%)
Latin America: 1.6 million (4.8%)
Western and Central Europe: 760,000 (2.3%)
Middle East and North Africa: 380,000 (1.1%)
Sub-Saharan Africa: 22.5 million (67.8%)
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 1.6 million (4.8%)
East Asia: [...]
Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say
Many cases of sexually transmitted diseases are escaping detection because gay men are not being tested each year as advised, federal health officials said Wednesday. And if the men do show up, the officials added, many doctors and clinics are not following screening recommendations.
But more cases could be detected if the government approved new [...]
Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls
I hope everyone is practicing safe(r) sex.
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The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported Tuesday.
Nearly half the African-Americans in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected [...]
‘Black MSM Have Higher HIV Rates Despite Similar Risks’
According to a new study released at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, “ Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are seven times more likely than their white counterparts to be infected with HIV.”
The studies found that black MSM were no more likely than white MSM to have [...]