Much Progress, Much to Do on HIV
March 27, 2012
A patient suffering from HIV is taken to a local hospital in Harare, January 31, 2012.
In July, the world’s largest AIDS conference will be held in Washington, D.C. About 20 thousand delegates from 200 countries and more than two thousand journalists are expected to attend AIDS 2012. This will be the first time the event has been held in the United States since 1990. In the lead-up to the conference, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given an update on the epidemic at home and abroad.
Many losses along the way
Dr. Thomas Frieden spoke at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“It’s possible, I think, to forget just how bad the HIV epidemic has been. HIV has already killed in this country as many people as died in all wars since the civil war,” he said.
And around the world, he said HIV/AIDS remains the biggest infectious disease challenge more than 30 years into the epidemic.
“There have been 65 million HIV infections and 30 million deaths since this epidemic started. In 2010 alone there were 2.7 million new infections and 1.8 million deaths. So the number of people infected continues to grow from 34 million and up,” he said.
Most of the infections and deaths have occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. In the early days, before the illness had a name, it was called slim disease, because people were wasting away.
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