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Aids out of control report says { November 26 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.mcmedia.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=200111262036856 http://news.mcmedia.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=200111262036856 AIDS 'out of control', says latest report November 26 2003 Shepparton News Five million people became infected with HIV worldwide and 3 million died of AIDS-related illness this year – the highest ever. The findings are featured in AIDS Epidemic Update 2003, a comprehensive new report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic issued today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO). One in five adults across southern Africa are now living with HIV/AIDS, the highest rate since the beginning of the epidemic. While infection rates across sub-Saharan Africa vary widely, from less than 1% in Mauritania to almost 39 per cent in Botswana and Swaziland, the breadth of the epidemic indicates that HIV/AIDS now has a firm hold on most countries in the region. In several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of AIDS mortality now match the high rate of new infections, creating a cycle of illness and death due in great part to the almost complete absence of large-scale HIV prevention or antiretroviral treatment programmes. According to the new report, an estimated 40 million people are living with HIV worldwide, including 2.5 million children under the age of 15. Globally, an estimated 5 million people were newly infected and 3 million people died of AIDS in 2003. Sub-Saharan Africa, the most severely affected region of the world, accounted for over 3 million of these new infections and 2.3 million AIDS deaths. Every day in 2003 an estimated 14,000 people were newly infected with HIV. More than 95% of those live in low- and middle-income countries. “The world is now mounting a greater response to AIDS through individual initiatives like the US Government’s Emergency Plan on AIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,” said Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director. “However it is quite clear that our current global efforts remain entirely inadequate for an epidemic that is continuing to spiral out of control." AIDS is tightening its grip on southern Africa and threatening other regions of the world.

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