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Report Tells of AIDS Devastation
by Jordan Lite
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37270,00.html
3:10 p.m. Jun. 27, 2000 PDT
AIDS is expected to decimate up to half the teen-age population in the
hardest-hit African countries, where the epidemic is reversing positive
trends in health, life expectancy, and economic growth, according to a grim
United Nations report released Tuesday.
Of the estimated 34.3 million people around the world living with HIV or
AIDS, 24.5 million of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. In South and Southeast
Asia, an estimated 5.6 million people are infected with the virus, followed
by Latin America, where 1.3 million people are affected.
Worldwide, an estimated 18.8 million people have died of AIDS since the
beginning of the epidemic, 3.8 million of them children, the report said.
Some 2.8 million deaths came last year, when 5.4 million people were newly
infected with HIV.
"The AIDS toll in hard-hit countries is altering the economic and social
fabric of society," Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, said
Tuesday.
"HIV will kill more than one-third of the young adults of countries where it
has its firmest hold, yet the global response is still just a fraction of
what it could be. We need to respond to this crisis on a massively different
scale from what has been done so far," Piot warned.
The epidemic has orphaned an estimated 13.2 million children worldwide, said
the report, which was released in advance of next month's International AIDS
Conference in Durban, South Africa.
In countries that have dedicated resources to battling AIDS, HIV infection
rates have stabilized and more people are living longer and healthier lives,
according to the report.
"In the West ... the impact of treatment has been spectacular," Piot said at
a news conference in Geneva. "Mortality has really collapsed from AIDS.
There is really a much better and longer life for people with HIV."
But although the number of people in the United States dying of AIDS plunged
in the mid-1990s, behavior that increases the risk of HIV infection is on
the rise.
In San Francisco, the proportion of gay men reporting multiple sex partners
and unprotected sex rose between 1994 and 1998, along with a dramatic
increase in sexually transmitted disease, the report said. Studies showed
similar findings in New York, London, and Sydney, Australia.
Among other findings in the U.N. report:
In 16 African countries, more than one-tenth of people aged 15-49 are
infected with HIV. In seven African countries, at least one in five adults
has HIV. An estimated 12 African women are HIV-positive for every 10 men on
the continent.
There are 4.2 million people infected with HIV in South Africa, more than
any other country in the world. Half of all 15-year-olds there and in
Zimbabwe are expected to die of AIDS. In Botswana, where nearly 36 percent
of adults are infected, at least two-thirds of 15-year-old boys will die of
the disease.
Some African countries are curbing the spread of HIV. Prevention campaigns
in Uganda have lowered the estimated HIV prevalence rate in that country
from nearly 14 percent in the early 1990s to about 8 percent today. U.N.
officials believe that Zambia may be starting to demonstrate a similar
course, and Senegal has stabilized its relatively low prevalence rates.
In pockets of Asia, huge proportions of people are believed to have HIV. In
India, 3.7 million people are living with the virus, second only to South
Africa. Although the prevalence rate in the country is seven per 1,000
people, in places like Manipur, the prevalence of HIV infection among
intravenous drug users skyrocketed from virtual nonexistence in 1988 to over
70 percent just four years later, where it remains today.
The epidemic is worse in some Caribbean island states than anywhere outside
of sub-Saharan Africa. In Haiti, over 5 percent of adults are HIV-positive,
and in the Bahamas the adult prevalence rate is over 4 percent.
"None of us should be surprised that AIDS is out of control in the
developing world," said Dr. Tom Coates, executive director of the AIDS
Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.
While the United States has invested billions of dollars in its domestic
programs -- nearly $1.6 billion this year in its largest AIDS health-care
program, and more than $2 billion in research, according to the advocacy
group AIDS Action -- most recently the Senate approved an amendment that
would allot only $245 million to fight AIDS in Africa and India.
Coates said that "we've got on the one hand the U.S. government doing a
wonderful job and on the other hand being incredibly stingy in the rest of
the world," where drugs that have revived many Westerners are either
non-existent or too expensive for patients to afford.
AIDS is having a snowball effect, the report said. Agriculture, business,
and education all are suffering in African countries, and demand for
AIDS-related health care is exhausting already overburdened health systems.
Kenya, Zambia, and Cameroon, which had successfully reduced child mortality
rates, are now seeing an upswing in childhood deaths attributable to HIV
infections transmitted by their mothers, the report said.
One-third of AIDS-affected families participating in a study in rural
Thailand saw their agriculture production slashed in half.
AIDS is killing off teachers and shrinking the budgets of families who want
to send their children to school. In the Ivory Coast, AIDS accounts for
seven of every 10 teacher deaths.
"Unless action against the epidemic is scaled up drastically, the damage
already done will seem minor compared with what lies ahead," the report
said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Brazilian Plea: Wear a Condom
by Kristen Philipkoski
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41405,00.html
2:00 a.m. Jan. 26, 2001 PST
Researchers in Brazil were startled to find that despite lowering numbers
of AIDS cases in the country as a whole, the cases among women have increase
d dramatically.
The statistics speak for themselves: In the past six years, the AIDS
epidemic has grown 7 percent in men, but almost 70 percent in women,
according to the National AIDS Program in Brazil.
Perhaps even more startling is the fact that the great majority of these
women reported they were in established relationships -- either married,
living with their partner or with a long-term boyfriend.
See also:
Good News, Bad News on AIDS Gene
Controversy Shadows AIDS Summit
Report Tells of AIDS Devastation
The government-run National AIDS Program in Brazil responded to these
findings with a televised public service announcement featuring a
13-year-old boy asking his father to use a condom. The tag line at the end
of the ad is "Don’t bring AIDS home. Wear a condom."
Many believe the fact that the number of women contracting HIV hasn’t
decreased can be blamed on a macho culture that applauds multiple sexual
partners for men.
"The rates of HIV in women are not decreasing after many campaigns, which
means they are still unable to negotiate condom use," said Dr. Katia Alves,
an assistant doctor at the Institute of Infectology Emilio Ribas Hospital in
São Paulo. "So they decided to focus on men's appreciation of their wives'
health to see if it would work."
"We do not know from whom those husbands are getting the virus, and it
doesn't matter. But we are quite sure they are having affairs and taking
AIDS back home," said Flávio Guilherme de Souza M. Pontes, a spokesman for
the National AIDS Program.
The advertising campaign could be an uphill battle, and not just because men
having extramarital affairs is apparently pervasive in the country. Asking a
spouse to use a condom is practically taboo, which only exacerbates the
situation.
"Brazilian society is still chauvinistic, and women have difficulty
negotiating condom use because it's considered very suspicious if in a long
term relationship either the man or woman suggests condom use," Alves said.
Despite the reputation Brazilian men have for being promiscuous, there's
still a chance that women might assume their marriage or committed
relationship is monogamous.
"Those women don't know they are at risk," Pontes said. "They don't have the
perception of the risk, having sex only with their partners."
The Ministry of Health in Brazil has seen success with other ad campaigns
aimed at curbing AIDS.
When AIDS exploded onto the world health scene in the 1980s, Brazil was hit
nearly as hard as Africa. But while the rate of AIDS in adults in Africa
today is 20 percent, in Brazil it's less than .06 percent, thanks to
aggressive campaigns encouraging condom use.
But this success is skewed dramatically towards the male population.
In the beginning of the '80s, studies showed that 25 men to 1 woman in
Brazil had AIDS, while today the ratio is 2 men to 1 woman.
A separate study done in 225 small cities in Brazil showed that the ratio is
changing even more: Two women to one man were found to have AIDS.
"It shows that the epidemic is growing in the female population, and going
to the interior of the country and affecting people with low education,"
Pontes said.
One study of pregnant Brazilian women with HIV showed that 39 percent had
male partners who have many other female partners, 21 percent are women with
many male partners and 13 percent are intravenous drug users. Twenty-three
percent knew their partners were HIV positive, 2 percent had hemophilic
partners and 2 percent knew their partners were bisexual.
Some suggest a better option for protecting women in Brazil against HIV
infection might be to give them the power to protect themselves directly.
Sharonann Lynch, a member of the Health Gap Coalition in New York City, a
group dedicated to getting people in developing countries the treatments
they need, said a good option could be drugs called microbicides.
The treatment would be used in the form of a topical gel or foam, and
researchers believe microbicides can prevent HIV transmission, as well as
other sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.
Unfortunately, the drugs are still in research, and Health Gap members
accuse drug companies of not wanting to invest in a treatment that is most
needed in Third World countries where they stand to make little profit, and
where they might even be forced to provide the drug for free.
Still, large-scale clinical trials are underway, and a few researchers are
coming close to seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
"Countries besides Brazil would also benefit from microbicides, mostly
because it is a woman-controlled method of prevention," Lynch said. "There
are obviously cultural limitations in getting a partner to use a condom."
Statistics also show that Brazilian women are probably not the only ones
having a hard time getting their partners to use a condom.
According to Health Gap, up to 60 percent of all new HIV infections in
developing countries are among 15-24 year olds, and twice as many of them
are female. In the United States, AIDS is the No. 2 cause of death among
African American women 25 to 44, and third among Latinas in that age group.
At the end of the day, putting power in women's hands might prove to be a
simpler solution than changing a macho culture.
"I believe that only when Brazilian women stop being so emotionally
submissive they'll get the power of saving themselves," Alves said. "I
wouldn't trust chauvinist Brazilian men to be in charge of avoiding giving
women HIV infection."
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