MALARIA AND HIV/AIDS

Millennium Development Goal 6

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

TARGET

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Progress?

spread of HIV appears to have peaked in 1996, when 3.5 million people were newly infected.

72% of all new HIV infections in 2008 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Epidemic stabilized in most regions. Rising in Eastern Europe, Central Asia.

Progress?

HIV remains the world’s leading infectious killer

AIDS-related mortality peaked in 2004, with 2.2 million deaths.

33.4 million people were living with HIV in 2008, 22.4 million in sub-Saharan Africa.

Some deadly rumors

In South Africa and Namibia, where AIDS rates are among the highest, some people believe sex with a virgin will cure HIV/AIDS.

Only Homosexuals contract AIDS (China, South Asia, Middle East)

AIDS doesn’t exist in our country ‘a foreign disease’

From 2005-2008 access to treatment increased 10 fold- from 400,000 to 4 million