World AIDS Day: Dec 1

Today is the 20th year anniversary of World AIDS day.


According to america.gov: A global survey conducted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimates there are 33 million people in the world carrying the virus, with 2.7 million new infections in 2007.

International Health Coalition published some interesting numbers on Women and HIV/AIDS

Here are just a few:

• Since 1995, women have constituted approximately half of all adults living with HIV globally. Today, women account for 15.4 of the 30.8 million adults (ages 15+) currently living with HIV.¹
  
• In many of the world’s most affected regions, women are increasingly at risk. The number of women living with HIV globally increased by 1.6 million from 2001 to 2007.¹ In 2007, an estimated 2,900 new HIV infections occurred each day among women (ages 15+).²
  
• Biologically, women are two to eight times more likely than men to contract HIV during vaginal intercourse.³
• More than four-fifths of new infections in women occur in marriage or in long-term relationships with primary partners.¹¹

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World AIDS Campaign
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