http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story...058635,00.html
AIDS becoming 'a teenage disease'
Press Association
Wednesday October 8, 2003
AIDS has become a disease of teenagers and young adults, with half of
all new infections occurring in 15 to 24-year-olds, according to a
United Nations report released today.
Around the world, an estimated 6,000 young people every day - or one
every 14 seconds - become infected with the disease, and the majority
of them are young women, the study revealed.
The fastest spread of AIDS was in sub-Saharan Africa, where an
estimated 8.6 million young people are infected, followed by South
Asia, where 1.1 million are infected, the report by the UN's
Population Fund (UNFPA) said.
The State of the World population report, which has been published
annually since 1978, was presented by the executive director of the
fund, Thoraya Obaid, at an international press conference in central
London.
This year's report, Making One Billion Count: Investing in
Adolescents' Health and Rights, focused on the risks and challenges
faced by the world's 1.2 billion adolescents, the largest generation
of adolescents in history.
Poverty is a major factor in HIV infection, the report said, with some
girls in the world's poorest countries exchanging sex for money
towards school fees or to help their families.
The report also found that married adolescent girls were at particular
risk since they were often married to older men with more sexual
experience and were generally unable to negotiate condom use.
Providing accurate, age-appropriate sex education and encouraging safe
and responsible behaviour were essential to the prevention of teenage
pregnancy and stopping the spread of Aids, the report said.
Yet 44 out of 107 countries surveyed did not include Aids education in
their school curricula, and young people were increasingly receiving
their knowledge from unreliable sources, such as their peers and the
media, it noted.
Alex wrote:
Indeed Alex, you could prove that aids is caused by bad statistics keeping :-)
In every country where they do not register the number of death's, aids is rampant. Where they keep strict statistics, the number is low low low. Where the WHO thinks they keep bad statistics, and it turns out that they are in fact reliable, like in the case of South Africa, they go from high to low, and Mbeki invites the dissidents.
I wonder if South Africans will notice that antiretrovirals will kill more people than before.
It is a mad, mad world.
Hayek.
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"Tenonder gaan aan de domste van de groep is nu eenmaal niets om fier op te zijn."
-- "Omarr" aka Lieven Stockman
