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Eastern Asia AIDS issues. East Asia and Pacific Island Region AIDS/HIV Epidemic
The HIV/ AIDS epidemic poses a very real health problem ...
... The AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe & Central Asia shows no ... The epidemic in Eastern
Europe is driven by injecting ... of the issues around HIV and AIDS ? and new ...
... Europe (including Turkey and Greece), Eastern Europe, Russia ... mostly East and Southeast
Asia), Oceania (Australia ... were available as choices: AIDS portrayed as ...
... Africa, 22 percent in southern and eastern Asia and the ... In Asia and Africa, most
people contract the disease ... Many people consider HIV infection and AIDS to be ...
... Africa, 22 percent in southern and eastern Asia and the ... In Asia and Africa, most
people contract the disease ... Many people consider HIV infection and AIDS to be ...
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East Asia and Pacific Island Region AIDS/HIV Epidemic
The HIV/ AIDS epidemic poses a very real health problem in many of the countries which make up the East Asia Pacific region. Given the presence of risk behaviors and a population size representing 60% of the world’s people, the potential for an epidemic is real. At the end of 2003, between 700,000 and 1.3 million adults and children in the region were living with HIV. During 2003, anywhere from 150,000 and 270,000 adults and children were newly infected with HIV and there were between 32,000 and 58,000 deaths due to HIV/AIDS. Although these numbers are low when compared to Sub-Saharan Africa, they are almost three times greater than the numbers in North America and Europe respectively. Statistical data indicates the epidemic does not discriminate between sexes, with approximately 50% of the infected being women. East Asia and Pacific Island’s children are also affected by this epidemic, with approximately 6,000- 12,000 children living with HIV and approximately 1,000 to 3,000 deaths being reported in 2003 alone. Although the exact number of HIV/AIDS Orphans is unknown, the Asian Development Bank estimated in a 2005 report that there would be approximately 4.3 million orphans living in the region by the year 2010.
The majority of HIV infections in the East Asia and Pacific region are concentrated in China. China is the third largest county in the world by area and has the largest population in the world (Approximately 1.3 Billion). UNAIDS estimated that anywhere between 430,000 to over a million adults and children were living with HIV at the end of 2003. A serious epidemic has been under way for many years in certain regions of the country. The virus has spread throughout China's 31 provinces and municipalities. Each area has its own distinctive epidemic pattern. In some areas, injecting drug users are spreading the virus. In other areas rural farmers were selling blood...
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