HIV/AIDS
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[edit] HIV/AIDS
[edit] Definition
[edit] Status
- The country with the worst infection rate is Botswana. The likely worst countries in 2010 are all in Africa: Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. But the countries with the most infections are not necessarily the ones with the highest percentage infected. For example, many observers believe that Russia, China and India will have the largest number of infections in the next decade or so, while still having small percentages.
- Interestingly, it’s more the Christianized countries that are having serious ramifications from AIDS. Some 75 World C countries have serious, rampant epidemics, while only 12 World B (majority-evangelized, minority-Christian) countries and no World A (unevangelized) countries do. However, 36 World A and 50 World B countries are lightly infected. It would be good to focus some attention on them.
[edit] The AIDS pandemic
- This has become a terrible threat to whole nations — especially in central and southern Africa, India, and South-east Asia. AIDS is likely to become the new frontier in medical missions and in the ministry of local churches in the future. A range of new skills and spiritual gifts will be needed to cope with the stress and demands of ministry to the sick and bereaved. In Africa, by far the worst-stricken continent, organizations such as Scripture Union, the Salvation Army, and Christian Action Against AIDS (ACCS) are ministering though AIDS prevention education and care for AIDS victims.
- In 2006 there were 4,3 millions new infections, 39,5 millions HIV-positiv and 2,9 died on this sickness (UNAIDS).
[edit] Quick Facts
- People with HIV/AIDS, 2009: 38 million
- People dying in AIDS-related cases, every minute: 4
- Newly-infected with AIDS, every minute: 5
- Children under 15, infected with AIDS: 2.3 million
- Children under 15, newly-infected, daily: 1,000
- Children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS: 15 million (mostly in sub-Saharan Africa)
- A child loses a parent to AIDS: every 15 seconds
- Children orphaned by AIDS globally, 2010: 25 million
- AIDS has killed twenty-five million people since it first emerged in the early 1980s--more deaths than occurred in World Wars I and II; [1]
- Every minute five people die of AIDS [2];
- every day 8,000 people die from AIDS [3]
- There are approximately fourteen million children orphaned by HIV/AIDS; [4]
- At current rates, 100 million people worldwide will be infected with HIV by 2010; [5]
- Of the 14,000 new people infected every day, 85% live in the developing world; [6]
- In Botswana, nearly four in ten adults are infected; [7]
- Eastern Europe is experiencing the fastest-growing AIDS epidemic in the world; [8]
- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called HIV/AIDS the most serious threat to humankind and "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth." [9]
- Nigeria has 2.6 million people living with HIV - the third highest HIV caseload in the world after India and South Africa – and a prevalence rate of 3.1 percent, compared to 2 percent in Benin, but this does not discourage young people.
- Swaziland has the world’s highest rate of HIV infection: 26% of those aged 15-49.
- More than 50 million Asian women at risk of HIV infection: UNAIDS News Health
- Ukraine, there are about 400,000 persons with HIV infection, please pray for the orphans, whose parents have died of HIV/AIDS.
- There are now many ways in order to know if you are positive with HIV/AIDS. One of it is through the use of ELISA kit. It helps to identify anti bodies in a system. As a matter of fact, there are many ELISA kit manufacturers are occurring because of its advantages.
[edit] History
[edit] Global Efforts
- The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP), sponsored by the World Bank
- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: U.S. Five Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy, USA.
- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, an initiative in Botswana between the government, Merck, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
[edit] Organizations Involved
- World Vision on AIDS - http://www.worldvision.org/AIDSinfo
- GBGM-UMC on AIDS - http://new.gbgm-umc.org/work/health/aids/
[edit] More References
- Christian Today AIDS Forum sponsored by Christian Today, the Christian Post, Purpose Driven and World Vision.
- The Contribution of Christian Congregations to the battle with HIV/AIDS at the Community Level, by GMI Research Services at the request of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
[edit] Trends
- See HIV Trends
