HIV/AIDS bilen yuqumlunush ehwali putun dunya miqyasida
ighirlashmaqta

Memet Emin

Birleshken Dowletler Teshkilatning 21-Noyabirdiki dokilatigha
asaslanghanda HIV/AIDS bilen yuqumlunush ehwali putun dunya
miqyasida ighirlashmaqta, bolupmu Shriqi Asiya, Orta Asiya we
Sheriqi Yawropa elliride tiximu eghir bolmaqta.

Hazir putun dunyada texminen 40 miliyungha yiqin adem HIV/AIDS bilen
yuqumlanghan bolup, otken bir yildila 4.3 miliyun kishi ozlirige
HIV/AIDS ni yingidin yuqturiwalghan. Putun dunyada otken yili
texminen 2.9 miliyun bimar AIDS kisili tupeylidin olup ketken.

Hazir putun dunyada her 8 sikinutta bir kishi, her kuni texminen
11000 kishi HIV/AIDS bilen yuqumlinidighan bolup, her kuni texminen
8000 bimar AIDS kisili tupeylidin olup kitidiken.

Dokilatta Jungguoning HIV/AIDS tarqilish ehwali alahide tilgha
ilinghan bolup, Jungguodiki HIV/AIDS ning tarqilishi ehwali burunqi
bir qisim xeterlik kishiler yeni zeherlik chikimlikni okul qilip
urushqa adetlengen kishilerdin bara bara adettiki kishilerge qarap
tereqqi qiliwatqanlighi, hemde HIV/AIDS bilen yuqumlanghan
ayallarning tiximu tiz kopiyiwatqanlighi eskertilgen.


HIV infection on the rise worldwide-U.N. report

Reuters Health

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) - HIV infection is rising in every region of the
world and, most worrying, in countries like Uganda and Thailand that
had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS,
UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation announced Tuesday.

Nearly 40 million adults and children are infected worldwide,
according to the "2006 AIDS Epidemic Update," issued by the two
agencies. The most striking increases are in East Asia, Eastern
Europe and central Asia, mainly due to drug use and unsafe sex.

Somebody is infected with HIV every 8 seconds, equivalent to 11,000
infections worldwide every day, while another 8,000 infected people
die. "Evidence shows again that the global epidemic is growing in
all areas," Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, told a
news conference.

"Perhaps of even greater concern to me is the fact that in some
countries that had known real results in the fight against AIDS --
Uganda and some western countries -- we see an increase in infection
rates."

Some 4.3 million people across the globe became infected with HIV
this year, with a heavy concentration among young people, bringing
the total number to an estimated 39.5 million.

Sub-Saharan Africa, which recorded 2.8 million new infections, still
bears the brunt of the epidemic, with 24.7 million people living
with HIV, according to the report.

Of the 2.9 million global deaths from AIDS last year -- which Piot
said was the highest number recorded -- 2.1 million occurred in
Africa, the core area of the 25-year-old epidemic.

China's HIV epidemic, where drug use accounts for about half the
country's estimated 650,000 infections, has reached "alarming
proportions," according to the report.

"With HIV spreading gradually from most-at-risk populations to the
general population (of China), the number of HIV infections in women
is growing too," the report continued.

PAST SUCCESS STORIES

Uganda is among countries seeing a resurgence of infection rates,
which were previously stable or declining, it said.

New data showed erratic condom use in Uganda and more men having sex
with more than one partner, as well as evidence of rising HIV
prevalence in some rural areas, according to Karen Stanecki, UNAIDS
senior epidemiologist.

"In Thailand, another one of our past success stories, the number of
new infections continues to drop but the epidemic is changing and
countries such as Thailand and Uganda need to take into account the
fact that epidemics do change over time," Stanecki said.

In Thailand, a large percentage of new HIV infections occur in
people considered "low risk," she added, noting one third of new
infections are among married women.

"In Thailand it's a shift, it is not the same people who are
infected today as who were infected 10 years ago. The sex industry,
we can say is safe, but the government neglected grossly the problem
among injecting drug-users," Piot said.

"A country like Thailand which was really at the forefront of the
fight against AIDS is lagging behind now when it comes to dealing
with the problem in new populations as far as the HIV spread is
concerned."

The report cited evidence of a diminishing or stable HIV spread in
most east African and west African countries, while epidemics still
grow in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.

Piot told reporters: "There has been progress in the fight against
AIDS, firstly in Africa, where it was also time after all the
investments that have been made."

In South Africa, where an estimated 5.5 million people have HIV, the
epidemic continues unabated, suggesting the disease's prevalence has
not yet reached a plateau, the report said.

Piot welcomed South Africa's recent pledge to do better against the
disease, including using antiretroviral drugs which its leaders had
previously questioned.

In Asia, an estimated 8.6 million people are living with HIV, an
increase of nearly one million, and 630,000 people died from AIDS-
related illnesses in the vast region this year.
India, where the epidemic appears to be stable or diminishing in
some parts, while growing modestly in others, has 5.7 million
infected people, mainly through heterosexual sex.

Reuters Health