AIDS目前在非洲和亞洲的情況已非常嚴(yán)重，下面是近期流行病學(xué)調(diào)查以及研究的成果,。

AIDS的增長(zhǎng)的世界分布圖

The most alarming surge in HIV infections is in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where there was a 46% rise in the number of those living with HIV between 2001 and 2003. Transmission here is mainly linked to prostitution and intravenous drug use, both of which have flourished since the demise of the Soviet bloc.

North Africa and the Middle East seem to have experienced a similar increase, but these figures may be unreliable, since surveillance is far from complete.

People living with HIV in 2003 (% increase on 2001)

 
AIDS在成人中流行圖

1 out of every 100 people worldwide is HIV positive. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to suffer most, with 7 out of every 100 adults carrying the virus. And as Africa’s population grows, so too does its HIV problem.

Yet the region has experienced a just a 5% increase in the number of people living with HIV between 2001 and 2003, much less than in the rest of the developing world. This is partly because Africa’s epidemic is reaching a natural plateau. In some countries, prevention strategies are also helping to keep the virus in check.

 
AIDS感染后死亡病例人數(shù)的世界分布圖

In 2003, around 3 million people died from AIDS, with sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and South East Asia hardest hit. Last year, the virus killed around 8% of infected people in these regions, compared with just 1% of those in Western Europe and North America. The high price and scarcity of AIDS drugs in developing countries are to blame.

AIDS總體分布圖

Twenty years and 20 million deaths after the first AIDS diagnosis in 1981, HIV has spread worldwide. In Africa, where 25 million people are HIV positive, the disease is starting to plateau. But elsewhere, notably East Asia and Eastern Europe, infections are beginning to climb at an alarming rate

 
最近有關(guān)AIDS新聞報(bào)道（Nature)

Low US participation clouds AIDS meeting
Nature 8 July 2004

HIV outpaces global response
[email protected] 6 July 2004

Scientists rip US for cutbacks to global AIDS summit
Nature Medicine 1 July 2004

NIH mulls plan to lower cost of AIDS drugs
Nature Medicine 1 July 2004

最的有關(guān)AIDS的文獻(xiàn)

Scientists deny ethical breach at Kenyan orphanage
Nature 3 June 2004

Uganda's HIV epidemic wanes
[email protected] 30 April 2004

HIV discovery allows targeting of vaccines
[email protected] 26 March 2004

Doctors battle to contain AIDS epidemic as unrest engulfs Haiti
Nature 4 March 2004

India targets local HIV strain in test of AIDS vaccine
Nature 15 January 2004

New drug campaign launched for World AIDS Day
[email protected] 1 December 2003

Cheap test monitors HIV drugs
[email protected] 31 October 2003

Old debates rekindled as world AIDS rates escalate
Nature Medicine 1 Sep 2003

Accrued HIV evidence turns treatment dogma on its head
Nature 21 August 2003

HIV drug resistance triggers strategic switch
Nature 24 July 2003

One in ten new HIV cases in Europe is drug-resistant
[email protected] 17 July 2003

Stigmatization fuelling Chinese HIV
[email protected] 20 June 2003

Clinical data marshalled to treat HIV
Nature 19 June 2003

AIDS Vaccines: Back to 'plan A'
Nature 26 June 2003

Genes hint at HIV genesis
[email protected] 13 June 2003

US to limit AIDS trials in developing nations
Nature Medicine 1 June 2003

Wait of the world falls on Bush's ambitious AIDS plan
Nature Medicine 1 June 2003

US AIDS initiative clears first hurdle
Nature Medicine 1 June 2003

HIV's history traced
[email protected] 20 May 2003

Debate escalates on source of sub-Saharan Africa's AIDS epidemic
Nature Medicine 1 May 2004

Trial suggests vaccines could aid HIV therapy
Nature 17 April 2003

Mixed results win HIV vaccine a guarded response
Nature 27 February 2003

Genital gel stalls HIV
[email protected] 10 February 2003

AIDS infections, deaths hit record high in 2003
Nature Medicine 1 Jan 2003