11.23.2004
Onu: l'AIDS ha infettato ormai 40 milioni di persone.
The New York Times > Health > AIDS Infections Reach Record High, U.N. Says: "An estimated 39.4 million people are living with the virus, up from 38.1 million in 2003, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
The report focused on women, who make up nearly half of infected adults. The steepest increases in this group over the last two years have occurred in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
In Africa, the most heavily affected continent, women account for nearly 60 percent of infected people.
The increasingly female face of H.I.V. in the world 'has major implications' because it means that treatment and prevention programs must focus on women if the world wants to stop the epidemic, said Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the United Nations AIDS program in Geneva." ¶ 21:12
The report focused on women, who make up nearly half of infected adults. The steepest increases in this group over the last two years have occurred in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
In Africa, the most heavily affected continent, women account for nearly 60 percent of infected people.
The increasingly female face of H.I.V. in the world 'has major implications' because it means that treatment and prevention programs must focus on women if the world wants to stop the epidemic, said Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the United Nations AIDS program in Geneva." ¶ 21:12
