AIDS in Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288668427)

AIDS than any other world region. In 2007, the United Nations reports, there were about 22.5 million HIV-positive persons in Africa, which has nearly 12% of the world's population but about 68% of the global total of infected persons. The adult rate of infection in Africa in late 2005 was 6.1%, compared with 1% worldwide, but had dropped to 5% by 2007, compared to .8% worldwide. Nine southern African countries have infection rates above 10%. In 2007, 35% of all people living globally with HIV lived in Southern Africa, where 32% of all global new HIV infections and AIDS deaths occurred. About 90% of infected children globally live in Africa, where about 61% of infected adults are women. As many as 30 million Africans may have died of AIDS since 1982, including 1.6 million who died in 2007, accounting for about 76% of global AIDS deaths in 2007. AIDS has surpassed malaria as the leading cause of death in Africa. It kills many more Africans than does war.


Author: Nicolas Cook
ISBN-10: 1288668422
ISBN-13: 9781288668427
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2013
Pages: 34
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.07d