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Original Post Date: 2001-11-28 Time: 18:27:49 Posted By: Jan
AIDS is cutting such a swathe through sub-Saharan Africa that in some
countries, life expectancy is nearly half that in the West and the economy
could shrink by a fifth over the next two decades, the UN said on Wednesday.
Some states may be so weakened by the epidemic that they could break down,
the specialist UN agency UNAids and the World Health Organisation (WHO)
warned.
“Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most severely affected by HIV/Aids,”
they said in their annual report on the pandemic.
“The estimated 3,4-million new HIV infections in sub-Saharan African in the
past year mean that 28,1-million Africans now live with the virus.
“Without adequate treatment and care,” it warned bluntly, “most of them will
not survive the next decade.”
In five West African countries — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast,
Nigeria and Togo — at least five percent of the population aged 15-49 has
HIV or Aids.
In 16 other sub-Saharan countries, the rate is at least 10%.
The nightmare record is held by Botswana, where the nationwide adult
infection rate is over 35% and in some areas nearly 44% of pregnant women
have HIV.
“Were it not for HIV/Aids, average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa
would be approximately 62 years; instead it is about 47 years,” the report
said.
In four countries — Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and Swaziland — life
expectancy is now under 40 years, it said.
By comparison, the life expectancy in the United States is 76,7 years, while
in Britain it is 77,82 years and in Japan it is 80,8 years, according to
national statistics for those countries.
The epidemic is having a profound impact on many African economies,
devastating the ranks of managers, teachers, doctors and engineers and other
skilled workers, weakening law and order and creating a poor, ragged army of
Aids orphans, the report said.
“By 2010, per capita GDP in some of the hardest-hit countries may drop by
eight percent,” it said. “Heavily-affected countries could lose more than 20%
of GDP by 2020.”
The disease’s devastating spread is chiefly pinned on ignorance, which
prevents “the vast majority” of Africans living with HIV, especially women,
from knowing they have the virus.
Despite this, the report says there are encouraging signs of progress in some
of the most heavily-affected countries.
Condom use is increasing and sexual promiscuity is declining in Zambia.
Belated information campaigns in South Africa are bearing some fruit, with a
big increase in condom distribution and use by sexually active teenage
girls.
The star performer is Uganda, “the first African country to have subdued a
major HIV/Aids epidemic,” thanks to information, education and communication
and decentralised programmes reaching down to village level.
HIV incidence prevalence among pregnant Ugandan women in urban areas has
fallen for eight years in a row, from a high of 29,5% in 1992 to 11,25% in
2000, and condom use among sex workers in Kampala, the capital, is as high as
98%.
Without similar efforts in other parts of the continent, some African
countries could be prey to violence or breakdown, as the economy, social
fabric and structures of state, such as the police force and judiciary, are
ravaged by the epidemic, UNAids and the WHO said.
“Aids has become the biggest threat to the continent’s development and its
quest to bring about an African Renaissance,” the report said. “(…) The
risks of social unrest and even socio-political instability should not be
under-estimated.”
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH HIV/Aids
Global total: 40 million
Of which: Adults 37,2 million
Children under 15 years 2,7 million
Regional totals (adults (43)+ children)
North America 940 000
Caribbean 420 000
Latin America 1 400 000
Western Europe 560 000
North Africa and Middle East 440 000
Sub-Saharan Africa 28 100 000
Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1 000 000
East Asia and Pacific 1 000 000
South and Southeast Asia 6 100 000
Australia and New Zealand 15 000
PEOPLE NEWLY INFECTED WITH HIV IN 2001
Global total: Five million
Of which: Adults 4,3 million
Children under 15 years: 800 000
Regional totals (adults (43)+ children)
North America 45 000
Caribbean 60 000
Latin America 130 000
Western Europe 30 000
North Africa and Middle East 80 000
Sub-Saharan Africa 3 400 000
Eastern Europe and Central Asia 250 000
East Asia and Pacific 270 000
South and Southeast Asia 800 000
Australia and New Zealand 500
AIDS DEATHS IN 2001
Global total: Three million
Of which: Adults 2,4 million
Children under 15 years: 580 000
Regional totals (adults (43)+ children)
North America 20 000
Caribbean 30 000
Latin America 80 000
Western Europe 6 800
North Africa and Middle East 30 000
Sub-Saharan Africa 2 300 000
Eastern Europe and Central Asia 23 000
East Asia and Pacific 35 000
South and Southeast Asia 400 000
Australia and New Zealand 120 – AFP