The report of the United Nations made the epidemic spread of AIDS appear inflection point
Date: For-11-30 Author: ZHANG Tian Kan; Meijuan Source: Wen Wei Po
     The United Nations recently released "2008 AIDS Epidemic Report" shows that the global AIDS epidemic for the first time since 1993 have been alleviated. Among them, the world's new HIV 2,500,000, compared with the 1998 high point, a decrease of 700,000; the number of deaths due to AIDS, 200 million in 2005 compared with a decrease of 200,000. At the same time, the past six years to take anti-AIDS drugs for patients, increased by 6 times.
    
     Since 1981 the United States confirmed the first 1 case of AIDS since the incurable disease, not only with the human hand in hand Xingying 27 years and claimed millions of lives, and social and economic development of the great obstacles. As a result, it seems that all the news on AIDS are disturbing. However, for the first time now there have been good news: The incidence of AIDS from the dead to show a decline in the inflection point. UNAIDS July 29, 2008 release of "2008 global AIDS epidemic report," full of confidence for the first time that the international community for many years after AIDS made active efforts to combat the global AIDS in 2007 for the first time "Obviously the important progress", new HIV infections and deaths have declined.
    
Stability in the period to come
    
     Today, AIDS patients gradually reduce mortality, more patients received anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug treatment, but also the global AIDS epidemic in the late 1990s peak, the first time in a steady state. According to the "2008 report on global AIDS epidemic" in 2007 to add the world's HIV-infected people at 250 million, down from 1998's 3,200,000 people; in 2007 about 200 million people died of AIDS, compared with 2005, A decrease of 200,000 people.
    
     This is a happy fact, because, for many years in the AIDS man's wit's end, the situation has improved for the first time. It tells people that, long as we persist in efforts to combat AIDS is not magic, but as time goes by, human beings will eventually overcome it.
    
     Now, the world's AIDS patients and to 33,000,000, which is the result of the 2007 revised statistics come after the figure was 40,000,000. 33,000,000 of the world's HIV-infected patients and 22,500,000 in sub-Saharan (under the sub-region) of the African countries, including South Africa, Botswana and other countries and Siweishinan, which remains one of the world AIDS epidemic Center. In the region about the number of people infected with HIV worldwide number of infections to 68%, due to AIDS deaths worldwide accounting for 72 percent of the deaths. As a result, Africa remains the hardest hit.
    
     Asia and has infected nearly 5,000,000; Eastern Europe and Central Asia, about 1,500,000; Latin America, about 1,700,000; North America, Western Europe and in Central and Eastern Europe, about 2,000,000, of which about U.S. 1,200,000. In addition to sub-Saharan Africa and countries outside the region, AIDS is still the main population of drug addicts, homosexual men and sex workers.
    
     It is encouraging that the number of AIDS deaths fell behind and there is another turning point, that is, the more people received medical treatment for AIDS, is precisely for this reason, the only AIDS morbidity and mortality reduction. In the past six years, taking AIDS drugs has soared 10-fold from 2003 to about 300,000 people in 2007 to 300 million people. Moreover, due to different government and private aid projects, the price of AIDS drugs has dropped significantly and readily available. Of course, even that tens of millions of HIV-infected patients and access to medicines, which are needed to maintain the drug longer survival time.
    
Survival period
    
     HIV-infected patients and the survival period is reflected in the increase in life expectancy, mortality rates decline reflects the reduction in deaths. Since 1996, the developed countries to take anti-viral treatment of patients with life expectancy increased by more than 13 years, while the mortality rate was reduced by about 40%. Of course, with the crowd than normal, the AIDS patient's life expectancy is shorter, about 20 years. Moreover, as a result of the disease through injecting drug use and drug treatment too late for patients, shorter life expectancy.

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