UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
UNAIDS Homepage
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), HIV/AIDS - international, regional and thematic material
Language:
English
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Description:
"HIV has been well established in Asia for many years. However, many countries have recorded relatively low rates of infection even in sub-populations with high-risk behaviour. At the time of the last MAP report on Asia from Kuala Lumpur in 1999, only Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia were reporting substantial nation wide epidemics, with a number of states in India and provinces in China also heavily affected. In the last two years, the picture has changed dramatically. Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal and Vietnam, for example, have all registered marked increases in HIV infection in recent years, while in China, home to a fifth of the world?s people, the infection seems to be moving into new groups of the population..."
Source/publisher:
MAP (Monitoring the Aids Pandemic)
Date of publication:
2001-10-04
Date of entry/update:
2011-01-04
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), HIV/AIDS - Burma/Myanmar, HIV/AIDS - international, regional and thematic material
Language:
English
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Description:
Assessment of the epidemiological situation 2004
The national adult prevalence of HIV infection is between 1% to 2%. Myanmar is thus characterized as having a "generalized" epidemic. However, the spread of the HIV infection
across the country is heterogenous varying widely by geographical location and by population sub group.
HIV was introduced in Myanmar in mid-to-late 1980s and by the end of 2003, a cumulative 7,174 AIDS cases and 3,324 AIDS deaths have been reported. The male-to-female ratio
among reported cases is 3.6:1. Among cases with known mode of transmission, 65% acquired infection by heterosexual route, 26% by injecting drug use, and 5% by contaminated
blood.
Source/publisher:
UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), WHO, UNICEF
Date of publication:
2004-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2005-04-28
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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