HIV

• WHAT: Virus that weakens the immune system and progresses to AIDS


  HOW: spreads via foreign fluids: unprotected sex, sharing needles, drug injections

  RATE: first in USA (1981) then to Africa and the world

  35million cases in 2013, 39million in 2022

  70% sub-saharan Africa
• Global Success:

  • Declined intensity but 2.1mill new cases in 2013
  • UN Millennium Development Goal 6a was met in 2015
  • WHO, UNICEF, Global Fund helped reduce HIV cases by 33% from 2001 to 2013

  Healthier generations born HIV-free (worldwide=pandemic over)

  National Success: Kenya

  • Early antiretroviral treatment but it is expensive, life-long and there is a lack of access in rural areas
  • 1st to create an HIV prevention Roadmap
  • VMMC (voluntary medical male circumcision): transmission rates fell by 60%, 20k men reached in 2010
  • King Condom- distributes 5000 condoms/day
  • USA: 55,000 new cases/year
• Barriers

  Cultural norms of practising unsafe sex

  Outlook on HIV treatment

  70% don't know how to use condoms

  100,000 new cases/year but positive as it shows more awareness

  There isn't universal access