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AIDS: Global Annual Balance 2006

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Study: AIDS on track to be No. 3 killer worldwide

 

Global numbers

- 2006 - 39,5 millions live with HIV of which 37,2 million are adults, 17,7 million woman and 2,3 million children below age 15.

- Since 2004 the number of AIDS transmission increased to 2,6 million people annually .

- Newly infected 2006 globally, 4,3 million people of which are 530.000 children below age 15.

- In total there will be this year 2,9 million dieing of AIDS, of which are 2,6 million adults.

 

AIDS will become the No. 3 cause of death worldwide within the next 25 years, trailing only heart disease and stroke, a study published today concludes.

Today AIDS ranks fourth behind heart disease, stroke, and respiratory infections, and accounts for roughly 2.9 million deaths annually. But in a revision of global mortality projections, researchers estimate that by 2030, nearly 120 million people could die from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the study in PLoS Medicine, a journal published by the Public Library of Science. When projections were last calculated 10 years ago, researchers assumed AIDS cases would be declining, not rising.

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