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In aids analysis africa(a reputable journal)vol10 no2 sep 1999 they are now
reporting HIV levels in swaziland of 44.6% in paediatric wards and 37.6 in
sugical wards(which should be represntative of the total population
The HIV levels are 60% for the ages 20-29 and even the over 60's have a
figure of 10%
For botswana the figures are 45% for 20-29.
These are the highest official figures that I have seen (I hear often
unofficialy from hospitals in South Africa of higher figures, butthey may
not be representative)
The caucasian(inc indian)/ black ratio remains at about 15/1, although I
hear in the USA, the ratio is beginning to rise to 25/1(unofficial
unconfirmed reports).
-----Original Message-----
From: Hilary A. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 September 1999 06:53
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Subject: [CTRL] Coping with Africa's Aids disaster
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_444000/444974.stm
"Southern Africa is now at the epicentre of new infections. Almost a
quarter of adults in Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe are HIV
positive and in South Africa there are an estimated 1,500 new infections
every day."
These are alarming figures.
Hilary
Sunday, September 12, 1999 Published at 14:20 GMT 15:20 UK
Coping with Africa's Aids disaster
Aids has run rampant on the continent
An international conference on Aids has opened in the Zambian capital
Lusaka to discuss how to contain the further spread of the HIV virus, which
has become the continent's number one killer.
Thousands of people in Africa become infected with HIV every day, and the
continent is home to two-thirds of the global population of those infected
with the virus.
The impact on African economies and society has been devastating.
The top UN Aids campaigner, in Zambia to attend the conference, said the
world community had failed to mobilise to fight the disease.
Dr Peter Piot, executive director of the UN Aids agency, said half of all
newborn babies in Africa carry the HIV virus that leads to Aids.
"Aids is cutting productivity of companies, far too many people are too
sick to work, Africa's middle class is being decimated," Mr Piot told
Reuters news agency.
He said that while Western powers had found the will to deal with crises
like that in Kosovo, they had made no attempt to respond in the same way to
Aids.
The World Health Organisation's director for Africa, Ibrahim Samba, said
the disease should be declared a global disaster.
African leaders absent
Several thousand delegates at the Lusaka conference will discuss ways of
caring for those who are already HIV positive and containing the further
spread of the disease.
The main strategy under discussion is changing people's sexual behaviour to
protect those who are yet to be infected, and lobbying for cheaper drugs
that can turn Aids from a death sentence into a chronic but survivable
disease.
Since the Aids epidemic began, 34 million Africans have been infected with
HIV and almost 12 million have already died.
Southern Africa is now at the epicentre of new infections. Almost a quarter
of adults in Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe are HIV positive and
in South Africa there are an estimated 1,500 new infections every day.
There is some evidence that HIV infection rates are dropping in countries
like Uganda where national health education campaigns, political support
and increased awareness of the disease have helped.
But BBC correspondent Greg Barrow, who is in Lusaka, says that despite the
huge problems of Aids on the continent, not a single African head of state
attended the opening ceremony.
He says that, of all the speeches at the opening ceremony, it was one
delivered by an eight-year-old Zambian girl which was the most poignant:
"My best friend will turn eight next month ... Her father will not be there
to help her blow out her birthday candles. Her mother will not be there to
help her cut her birthday cake.
"They both died from Aids last year."
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