UN AIDS data on sub-Saharan Africa. Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS


Journal of the International Association of Physicians in Aids Care 2(5): 54

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 1081-454X
PMID: 11363538
Document Number: 258224
As of late 1995, it is reported that of the 7500 new HIV infections that occur daily worldwide, 50 percent are from sub-Saharan Africa, of which more than 50 percent occur in women. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) fuel the epidemic, and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 65 million new cases of curable STDs occurred in Africa in 1995. Of particular concern are the orphans that AIDS leaves behind, creating strains on African society. Also, because AIDS affects people in their most productive years, the disease is systematically erasing many productive life years from the African economy.

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