A few stats to make us realise how devastating this condition is:
In 24 years since it was discovered it has killed 25 million people. Thats half of the UK!!
5 million people got infected with HIV in 2005 and if that doesn't sound like much.. imagine every second person you meet on the streets of Mumbai having acquired HIV this year!!
40.3 million people live with HIV today thats 1 in every 12 people on the planet! BUT, 75% of these people are in Sub-saharan Africa...
25.8 million people have HIV in Sub-saharan africa and even worse, of the total 3.1 million deaths worldwide in 2005, 2.7 million were in Africa!! That is just heart-breaking.
India has 5.1 million people living with HIV and the epidemiology of the disease in India is diverse. Sex workers are among the worst hit group with the prevalence of disease in Mumbai's sex workers being 52%. This means that at the time of the study 52% of sex workers in Mumbai had HIV. 52%...
Kolkotta's Sonagachi district which was the first to force their customers to use condoms has a prevalence rate of 4% ( compared to 11% previous to intervention)
The other high-risk group are IV drug users and there is a high prevalence of HIV in drug users.This particular group seems to be quite common in the Manipur, Nagaland and Tamil Nadu.
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Hey, I know this isn't exactly about AIDS, but it fits with what you've been talking about in the last few posts.
"No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and likewise a society with many sores will twitch when someone has the courage to touch one and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that."
Oscar Romero
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