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  2. HIV adult prevalence rate - Wikipedia

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    Adult HIV prevalence exceeds 20% in Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, while an additional five countries report adult HIV prevalence of at least 10%. In absolute numbers, South Africa (9.2 million), followed Tanzania (2.55 million) and Mozambique (2.48 million) and Nigeria (2.45million) had the highest HIV/AIDS number of cases by the ...

  3. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Some countries or jurisdictions, including some areas of the United States, have laws that criminalize HIV transmission or exposure. [298] Others may charge the accused under laws enacted before the HIV pandemic.

  4. Women and HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    HIV became the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 25–44. [34] 1994 On August 5, the US Public Health Service recommended that HIV-positive women take ZDV (AZT) to reduce the chance for perinatal transmission (infection through birth) of HIV, citing an ACTG 076 study that concluded that the drug reduces transmission by up ...

  5. List of HIV/AIDS cases and deaths registered by region

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    Globally, some 35.3 million are living with HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 36 million people have died since the first cases were reported in 1981 and 1.6 million people died of HIV/AIDS in 2012. [1] Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide ...

  6. HIV/AIDS in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Estimated prevalence of HIV/AIDS by country 2011. In Western Europe, the routes of transmission of HIV are diverse, including paid sex, sex between men, intravenous drugs, mother to child transmission, and heterosexual sex. However, many new infections in this region occur through contact with HIV-infected individuals from other regions.

  7. HIV/AIDS in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Some demographic groups in Latin America have higher prevalence rates for HIV/ AIDS including men who have sex with men having a prevalence rate of 10.6%, and transgender women having one of the highest rates within the population with a prevalence rate of 17.7%. [2] Female sex workers and drug users also have higher prevalence for the disease ...

  8. New HIV prevention drug could reach poorest countries ... - AOL

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    A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told Reuters on Tuesday. The ambition is to start ...

  9. HIV/AIDS in Thailand - Wikipedia

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    Estimated prevalence in % of HIV among young adults (15–49) per country as of 2011 [6]. After Thailand's first case of [imported] AIDS was reported in 1984—in a Thai student who returned from college in the United States [7] —and after the first laboratory detection of HIV in 1985, [8] starting in early 1988, HIV infection spread explosively in sequential waves in one risk group after ...