(Reuters) – then presents the picture of global and regional HIV/AIDS according to the latest statistics on the agenda of Nations United UNAIDS published Monday.
PANORAMA world
* Around 34 million people throughout the world had in 2010 the the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, according to the latest figures from UNAIDS. That figure surpasses a 17 per cent in 2001, when 28.6 million people living with HIV.
* There were 2.7 million new infections by 2010, including around 390,000 children in
* The proportion of women with HIV remained stable in 2010, a 50 per cent of all cases, while in sub-Saharan Africa, women represent 59 percent of those living with the virus
* About 1.8 million people died from causes related to AIDS during 2010.
REGIONAL breakdown
-Ãfrica:
* Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most battered by the virus, with 22.9 million HIV-positive people in 2010, which is equivalent to about 68 per cent of the world.
* The number of new infections with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa was reduced more than 26 percent, to 1.9 million in 2010, from about 2.6 million in 1997.
* South Africa has more people with HIV than any other country in the world, with 5.6 million cases.
* There were 1.2 million deaths related to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010.
* AIDS has caused the deaths of at least 1 million people per year in the region since 1998.
– ASIA:
* Although HIV rates are lower in Asia than in some other regions, the Asian population size makes it the second largest group of people living with HIV.
* There are 4 million people living with the virus in the South and Southeast Asia, and 270,000 new infections were reported in the area and 250,000 deaths related AIDS in 2010.
* Since the peak of the epidemic in 1996 there has been a reduction of 40 per cent in new infections with HIV in this region
* 790,000 People have HIV in East Asia, and in 2010 there were 56,000 deaths related AIDS. In this area, has been an increase in new infections, to 88,000 in 2010, from 74,000 in 2001.
-Europe East and ASIA central:
* From 2001 to 2010, the number of people living with the AIDS virus in the region has increased to 1.5 million. In 2001 the number was 410,000 infected.
* Russia and Ukraine represent almost 90 per cent of the epidemic regional.
* In 2010, around 90,000 adults and children died of AIDS, over 7,800 who died in 2001. Injecting drug use remains the leading cause of infection with HIV in the area
-Middle East and North of africa:
* In 2010 there were 470,000 adults and children infected with HIV in this region, above the 320,000 reported in 2001. New infections also rose, to 59.000 in 2010, from 43,000 in 2001; and deaths from AIDS increased from 22,000 to 35,000 in the same period
Sources: UNAIDS/Reuters
