Global HIV/AIDS and the Developing World
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- A Trickle or a Flood: Commitments and Disbursement for HIV/AIDS - Q&A with Michael Bernstein
- Aids Requires A Lateral Approach (Financial Times)
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- AIDS Funding Binds Longevity of Millions to U.S. (Washington Post)
- Health bargains in poor nations: A few dollars can buy years of life
- HIV/AIDS Research in Mozambique (Interview)
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- How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa
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06/15/2006
What are the impacts of HIV/AIDS in the developing world?
Human impacts—HIV/AIDS is one of the largest challenges the global community has ever faced.
- Since 1981, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS. Last year alone, 3 million people died of AIDS.
- By 2010, life expectancy in some of these countries might fall to only 30 years--a reversal to the level of a century ago.
- Today 40 million people around the world are living with HIV infection or AIDS; more than two-thirds of those infected are in Africa and the Caribbean.
- HIV/AIDS is also a major health threat in Russia, and there is a strong potential for rapid spread of the infection in China and India.
- HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects women. In 2001, of young women aged 15 to 25 years, 6% to 11% were living with HIV, compared with 3% to 6% of young men in that age group.