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Confronting the AIDS Pandemic |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Daniel J.M. Tarantola And Jonathan M. Mann |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,409 Words, 15,130 Characters |
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In 1986, the world undertook to mobilize, against the AIDS pandemic in an effort that continued to grow until the beginning of this decade, when it began to stall. Today, the global HIV/AIDS pandemic is spinning out of control--its broad course has yet to be influenced in any substantial way by policies and programs mounted against it.
In 1991-1992, the Harvard-based global AIDS policy coalition undertook a review of the state of the AIDS pandemic. The findings of this review, which appear in our new book AIDS in the World (Harvard University Press, December 1992), raise the alarm and call for an urgent revival of the response to AIDS.
The magnitude of the pandemic has increased over 100-fold since AIDS was discovered in 1981. From an estimated 100,000 people infected with HIV worldwide in 1981, it is estimated that by early 1992, at least 12.9 million people around the world (7.1 million men, 4.7 women, and 1.1 million children) had been infected with HIV. Of these, about one in five (2.6 million) have thus far developed AIDS, and nearly 2.5 million have died.
The spread of HIV has not been stopped in any community or country. In the United States, at least 40,000 to 80,000 new HIV infections were anticipated during 1992; in 1991, more than 75,000 new HIV infections occurred in Europe. In just five years, the cumulative number of HIV-infected Africans has triple, from 2.5 million to over 7.5 million today. HIV is spreading to communities and countries around the world--i...
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...ing major geopolitical transitions and are facing severe economic recessions, HIV/AIDS is not simply fading away. The world will continue to experience a rapid increase in the number of people developing AIDS until there is a cure. In the meantime, a troubled world population can unite together to fairly and equitably make available prevention and treatment programs until that day comes. vbcrlf
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