HIV
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Rate of HIV-1 Prevalence in Ethiopian Sex Workers Executive Summary:
Global Rate of HIV-1 infection:
An estimated 65 million people have been infected in a total and more than 25million people have died world wide. With almost 5 million new infections and 3 million deaths in 2004 alone. In most affected countries, HIV/AIDS can be so pervasive that it assaults, as surely prolonged conflict, the essence of the nation state, secure families, communalities, economic and political institutions. The AIDS epidemics, unprecedented in the scale and impact . is both immediate global emergency and evolving long term threat. As the pace of new infections and AIDS deaths continues to accelerate, the AIDS epidemics needs to be recognized (as) one of the most serious threats our progress and stability-on a par with such extraordinary threats as nuclear weaponry or global climatic changes.
Rate of HIV-1 Infection in Ethiopia.
The Declaration of Commitments on HIV-1/ AIDS adopted by UN member States to report every two years on progress achieved using a set of core national level Indicators. In this spirit HAPCO has made the following report in 2008: The Current Ethiopian HIV/AIDS situation is well summarized in FHAPCO 2008 Report. According to this publication: 977,394 were infected with HIV/AIDS, 125,528 new infections or 344/day, 71,902 annual death due to AIDS which includes 10,825 children, 75,420 positive pregnancies and 14,148 HIV-1 positives births in 2007, the number of PLHIV requiring ART was 258, 264 which includes 15,716 children The task force used intensive methodologies to develop a single point estimate with adult HIV prevalence of 2.1% in 2007. Analysis of the data shows higher prevalence among females (2.6%) than males(1.7%). Also the Adult HIV prevalence in urban areas is much higher (7.7%) than the rural areas (0.9%) . The three highest prevalence region in the country are Gambela (8.3% urban), Addis Ababa (7.5%) and Diredewa (4.2%) . Other regions with HIV prevalence rates greater than the national estimates (2.1%) are Harari (3.2%), Amhara (2.7%) and Tigray (2.7%), Somali is the region with the lowest HIV prevalence estimate in the country (0.8%) .
Bio-T Square is fully dedicated in researching and developing its own HIV drug so that it will be affordable in Ethiopia and other African countries.
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