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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
recently reported that, "the scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
now outstrips even the worst-case scenarios of a decade ago." In
Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS presents a severe development
crisis. Over the course of 2001, there were approximately 3.5
million new infections in Sub-Saharan Africa, bringing the
total for that region to 28.5 million people. By the end of
2001, fewer than 30,000 of these people are benefiting from
anti-viral drugs. |
The map above depicts the extent and intensity of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world. The colors – ranging
from dark-red to dark-blue – show the number of persons – adults
and children – per capita that were alive with HIV/AIDS
at the end of 2001. Countries colored dark-red indicate
relatively high percentages of persons living with HIV/AIDS
per capita while dark-blue colored countries have relatively
low per capita infection rates.Twenty-six of the thirty
countries with the highest per capita HIV/AIDS infection
rates are in Africa (see table below). The country with
the highest score, Botswana, had 183 persons living with
HIV/AIDS per 1,000 individuals followed by Zimbabwe with
132 and Swaziland with 118. The United States had 3.06
persons infected with HIV/AIDS per 1,000 individuals and
was ranked 60th out of the 123 countries for which such
information was available. Japan, Slovakia, and Svalbard,
respectively, had the lowest incidence of HIV/AIDS cases
per 1,000 individuals. The data for both the map and the
table were obtained from the 2001 CIA World Factbook and
are displayed using TerraViva! Global Data Viewer, a product
from ISCIENCES, L.L.C. The World Factbook 2001 is a compendium
of data, both statistical and textual, about the geography,
economy, people, government and infrastructure of 267 countries,
territories and oceans of the world. |
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*References
CIA (2001). The World Factbook 2001, Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington DC.
UNAIDS
(2002). Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2002, Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland. |
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