HIV/AIDS pandemic

• It is a virus that attacks the immune system and is transmitted via bodily fluids
• Identified in 1981 and it makes the body vulnerable to life threatening diseases like ammonia.
• 2023=39 million people infected and 70% of the cases are in Sub Saharan Africa
• HIV targeted by UN in the millennium development goals.
• There is progress in reducing the prevalence from funding of NGOs and government organizations.
• The poorest countries struggle to have prevention methods and treatment areas. Even in wealthy countries HIV remains a problem
• Strategies used are focused into, Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
• Prevention relies on education and modifying high risk behaviour.

  For example publicising the dangers of drug abuse and having safe sex. Better data gathering governments has proved useful and stopping discrimination of those with HIV so they dont feel ashamed to access help
• Diagnosis

  acheived by screening and used in high income countries and known that early diagnosis leads to a reducing the risk of it developing into AIDS.
• Treatment includes ARV drugs which has helped reduce infant mortality rate as it halts the progression of the disease. These drugs are widely available
• An issue in low income countries is they have poor access to newer drugs