East Asia and Pacific Island Region AIDS/HIV Epidemic

The HIV/ AIDS epidemic poses a very real health problem in many of the countries which make up the East Asia Pacific region. Given the presence of risk behaviors and a population size representing 60% of the world's people, the potential for an epidemic is real. At the end of 2003, between 700,000 and 1.3 million adults and children in the region were living with HIV. During 2003, anywhere from 150,000 and 270,000 adults and children were newly infected with HIV and there were between 32,000 and 58,000 deaths due to HIV/AIDS. Although these numbers are low when compared to Sub-Saharan Africa, they are almost three times greater than the numbers in North America and Europe respectively. Statistical data indicates the epidemic does not discriminate between sexes, with approximately 50% of the infected being women. East Asia and Pacific Island's children are also affected by this epidemic, with approximately 6,000- 12,000......

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Title: Eastern Asia Aids Issues
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