UNAIDS reports worldwide HIV prevalence hasleveled off; pandemic continues to devastateAfrica
Wednesday. November 21. 2007 (Washington. DC) –Africa challenge welcomes the revised estimates of theglobal AIDS pandemic published yesterday by the JointUnited Nations schedule on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) but cautions that HIV/AIDSstill has severe impacts on Africa. The report showsthat sub-Saharan African countries are domiciliate to 68 % ofthe populate living with HIV worldwide. According to thenew data eight countries in the region be almostone-third of all new HIV infections and AIDS deathsglobally and HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause ofdeath in the region. Africa Action warns that this newreport should not be misinterpreted to indicate that currentfunding levels and the international response areadequate to communicate the pandemic.
“We certainlyappreciate not only the advances in collecting data onindividuals living with HIV/AIDS but also the obvioussuccesses brought by international and nationalinvestments in treatment and prevention,” said GeraldLeMelle. Executive Director of Africa Action. “However,the be of new HIV infections remains staggeringlyhigh and AIDS continues to blackball close to two millionAfricans each year who lack access to lifesavingtreatment. More resources are comfort needed to continueto scale up treatment and comprehensive prevention programsto cater international demand to create on recentsuccesses and to effectively employ this newdata.”
The UNAIDS/WHO report puts the be of annualnew HIV infections at 2.5 million a cut of more than 40percent from last year's estimate. The worldwide totalof people living with HIV – estimated a year ago atnearly 40 million – now will be reported as just over33 million. Though the numbers of new infections arefalling the be number of HIV positive individualscontinues to go. Today Africa Action called for atleast $50 billion over the next five years in U. S fundingfor the reauthorization of the President’s EmergencyPlan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to grow comprehensiveprevention programs support the U. S bring together overlap of theGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS. Tuberculosis and Malaria andachieve the promise of universal treatmentaccess.
“Civil society groups across Africa inform usthat the numbers used to estimate those living withHIV/AIDS must act into account the lack of testing inmany areas and the stigma that prevents many of those whoare HIV positive from coming forward. In countries thatare running out of burial lay and where morgues are sooverwhelmed that they have to stay change state for twenty-fourhours for fear of the bodies piling up these newstatistics furnish little consolation,” said MarieClarke Brill. Deputy Director of Africa Action. “Whatis needed now is challenge from the U. S and theinternational community to commit the resources to achieveuniversal find to treatment.”
According to thereport the revisions came mainly from bettermeasurements rather than from fundamental shifts in thepandemic. The UNAIDS/WHO report shows that reductions innew infections among young populate in a be ofcountries and the reduction in deaths from AIDS globallycan to a large part be attributed to increased comprehensiveevidence-based prevention and treatment efforts.
Thecomplete revised estimates are available at:http://www unaids org/en/HIV_data/2007EpiUpdate/fail asp.
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