Titre : | The changing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Europe and Central Asia |
Titre traduit : | (L'évolution de l'épidémie de VIH/Sida en Europe et en Asie centrale) |
Auteurs : | UNAIDS = ONUSIDA |
Type de document : | Rapport |
Editeur : | Genève : UNISAID, 2004 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-92-9173-369-5 |
Format : | 16 p. / fig. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés VIH ; SIDA ; PREVALENCE ; MORTALITE ; CONDUITE A RISQUEThésaurus géographique EUROPE ; ASIE DU CENTRE |
Résumé : | Diverse HIV epidemics are underway in Europe and Central Asia. In the East, which is experiencing the fastest-growing epidemics in the world, the number of people living with the virus has risen exponentially in just a few yearsreaching 1.2-1.8 million at the end of 2003. Between 180,000 and 280,000 people were newly infected with HIV last year. Hundreds of thousands more people, the vast majority of them young, face the imminent risk of HIV infection unless prevention efforts are expanded and improved. Driving the epidemics in these countries are persistently high levels of risky behaviourspecifically injecting drug use and, increasingly, unsafe sex among young people. These epidemics are set to grow considerably still, with unsafe sex likely to become a much more prominent factor, leading to more infections among women. Meanwhile, in south-eastern Europe, high levels of (sexual and drug-related) risk behaviour point to an impending danger of HIV outbreaks in countries which, to date, have been spared the epidemic. The countries of Western Europe, by contrast, are home to older, well-trenched epidemics. There, widespread access to life-extending antiretroviral treatment has caused AIDS death rates to plummet from more than 20,000 in 1996 to between 3,400 and 3,600 in 2003. However, that trend is shadowed by ongoing signs that prevention efforts are faltering in several countries. Some 30,000-40,000 new infections occurred in Western Europe in 2003, raising the number of people living with HIV to between 520,000 and 680,000. Although injecting drug use is a prominent factor in the epidemics in several countries (notably France, Italy, Portugal and Spain), most new HIV infections in these countries are now attributable to unsafe sex (a growing proportion of them occurring among heterosexuals). Unless countered by more effective prevention efforts, these developments could spur a more vigorous new phase in the epidemic. (Extract of the publication) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | Geneva, Switzerland |
Numéro Toxibase : | 207922 |
Centre Emetteur : | 02 Coordonnateur |
Lien : | http://data.unaids.org/publications/irc-pub06/jc1038-changingepidemic_en.pdf |
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