How do people get infected

• People of all ethnicities whether female or male can contract HIV.

- By using or sharing needles that are unclean.

-having sexual intercourse with a partner who has been exposed to HIV

-Blood to blood contact or blood transfusion.

2009 Regional HIV StatisticsRegion Adults & Children Living

with HIV

Sub-Saharan Africa 22.5 Million

Middle East & North Africa 460,000

South & South-East Asia 4.1 Million

East Asia 770,000

Oceania 57,000

Central & South America 1.4 Million

Caribbean 240,000

Eastern Europe & Central Asia 1.4 Million

Western & Central Europe 820,000

North America 1.5 Million

Total 33.3 MillionSource: UNAIDS

World Regions HIV Current Data

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). AIDS is a disease of the immune system that has treatment options, but no cure, at the present time.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region that has the most infected people living with HIV. They have about 22.5 million people with HIV. Six point one percent of Sub-Saharan Africa are living with HIV and one percent of the whole world population is living with HIV.

Country Adult prevalence Total HIV Deaths 2005

Cameroon 15.9% 100,000 82,000

Côte d'Ivoire 7.1% 750,000 65,000

Liberia 5.9% 100,000 72,000

Guinea-Bissau 3.8% 32,000 2,700

Togo 3.2% 110,000 9,100

Nigeria 2.5% 3,600,000 310,000

Gambia 2.4% 20,000 1,300

Burkina Faso 2.0% 150,000 12,000

Ghana 1.9% 260,000 21,000

Benin 1.8% 87,000 9,600

Mali 1.7% 130,000 11,000

Sierra Leone 1.6% 48,000 4,600

Guinea 1.5% 85,000 7,100

Niger 1.1% 79,000 7,600

Senegal 0.8% 44,000 3,500

Mauritania 0.7% 12,000 <1,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

HIV Data for West African Countries

How We Raised Awareness

• On December 1st 2010 we introduced Carver High School to World AIDS Day. As a class, we made posters of the following topics: how you can get infected disease, precautions to take, and statistics on countries.

• As well as having posters we also handed out red ribbons to students to show that we are aware

HIV

• providing antiretroviral therapy(MASA) to HIV-infected pregnant women and the

children born with the virus

• Requiring HIV testing while in the prenatal care process instead of voluntary testing

antiretroviral

therapy

(MASA)

http://www.avert.org/aids-botswana.htm

Training teachers to talk

about AIDS prevention

Education

Using the mainstream media to raise awareness;

Improving children’s

access to

education.

Providing universal health

access in many cases;

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3395.html http://www.suite101.com/aids-hiv-in-africa

Recognizing the role of grandparents in high cases of orphaned children

Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal, and Zambia, have also tried to provide free HIV treatment as user fees have prevented people from receiving health services.

http://www.globalissues.org/article/90/aids-in-africa#ActionbyotherAfricanLeaders

HIV/AIDS: The Liberian Experience

The Government has promised to pass an AIDS law, making it "attempted

murder" for an AIDS patient to knowingly have sex with an uninfected

person

http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/AIDS.htm

…CONTINUED………

The global experience indicates that education "safe sex", and health

services are the current solutions to this health crisis. Education and an

improvement in the standard of living (health care, safe drinking water; sanitation; electricity) will help.

http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/AIDS.htm

ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR HIV PREVENTION

Observational studies suggest that antiretroviral therapy reduces the sexual

transmission of HIV especially among couples.

http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/AIDS.htm

http://www.avert.org/media-gallery/image-1303-an-hiv-prevention-billboard-in-malaysia

http://www.avert.org/media-gallery/image-1185-hiv-prevention-sign-in-ho-chi-minh-city-vietnam

HIV prevention sign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2005. The text reads: "Injecting drugs: don't try it even once".

HIV Prevention Messages in Asia

An HIV prevention billboard in Malaysia, sponsored by Lions Clubs International.

Current Policy In India

National AIDS Control Organization

• India has the world third largest population suffering from AIDS

• Provides leadership to HIV/AIDS control program in India through 35 AIDS prevention and control societies

• National AIDS Control Organization (NACO): Set up in 1992 and received support form UNAIDS

• In 2010, NACO approved the TeachAIDS curriculum for use in India, which will represents that an HIV/AIDS education could be provided in a curriculum without being coupled with sex education for the first time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_AIDS_Control_Organisation

National AIDS Control Organization

• In 1986, after the first AIDS case in the country, the National AIDS Committee was constituted in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India

• The Ministry helped to develop the National AIDS Control Organization in 1992, because they believed that they needed a program to help control the AIDS epidemic

http://www.nacoonline.org/About_NACO/

National AIDS Control Organization

• The objective of the National AIDS Control Program (NACP)-I (1992-1999), which was established by the National AIDS Control Program, was to control the spread of HIV/AIDS. – They established 685 blood banks and blood component

separation units that check the spread of HIV/AIDS– HIV surveillance systems were created– Foundations for treatment were made in hospitals, medical

colleges, and 504 STD clinics were made

http://www.nacoonline.org/About_NACO/

National AIDS Control Organization

• During NACP-II (1999-2006), many new initiatives were taken and many programs were created, too.– The School AIDS Education Program was made to build up life skills of

kids and address the issues related to growing up– Communication of information about the spread of HIV/AIDS

awareness, promotion of safer behaviors, and increased condom use were created

– Voluntary counseling and testing facilities were created – Interventions to prevent parent to child transmissions were also

created – Free antiretroviral therapy was offered to hospitals– There was research on vaccines and microbicides– Some policies established during NACP-II were the National AIDS

Prevention and Control Policy; National Blood Policy, A Strategy for Greater Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS, and National Rural Health Mission

– Interventions were created to focus on targeted high risk groups

http://www.nacoonline.org/About_NACO/

Achievements Of The NACP-I and NACP-II

Since Africa is one of the top continents that has the most

number of HIV/AIDS cases, Africans are the ones that should be helped

first.

SAFE SEX

By Introducing:

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Antiretroviral DRUGS

EducatedAccess to

contraceptiv

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• Countries can become more aware of the way AIDS is transferred between people.

• Start better campaigns to stop unprotected sex.

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Members of Dr. Palmer’s 5th/6th period

2010/2011 Global Science Issues class

Carver High School

Winston-Salem/Forsyth

County Schools

Winston-Salem, NC

U.S.A.