AIDS Killed 2.1 Million People in 2007 - Life - Lifestyle

The first day of the month of December marks the World AIDS Day. HIV has contaminated over 33 million people in the world today.

The first day of the month of December marks the World AIDS Day, and the reason for this is that on the same date in 1988, the ministers of health all around the world gathered in order to exchange information about this disease inviting the people of the whole world to social tolerance, the World AIDS Day is meant to awake awareness of this dangerous disease.

Every minute a child dies

At the moment 33 million people are infected by the HIV virus, 2.3 million of which are children.

This year a record number of people died since the beginning of the epidemics – around 2.1 million. Experts expect the number of dead people to rise in the new millennium.

Approximately half of the people infected by the HIV virus before the age of 25, and dies from AIDS before the age of 35. In the world a child dies from AIDS every minute.

SIDA or AIDS means Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and it is a chronic disease that cuases HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).

HIV works in a way that it damages and destroys the immunity system cells, thus it stops the organism from fighting different infections – bacterial, viral and funguses.

The virus is transmitted through physical fluids

HVI is transmitted through blood, sperm, vaginal secretion and mother milk. The most frequent way of transmission of the virus is through sexual intercourse, while the second is through blood.

Every person who behaves careless of the risks such as sharing a syringe or needles with other people and has sexual intercourses without using protections, is in danger of HIV contamination.

The virus is transmitted by using the same cutlery, towels, bedclothes or through the toilet, but no through mosquitos or other insects.

First case

The first AIDS case was noticed in the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on June 5^th 1981 in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

HIV was however found much earlier. The first AIDS case recorded was in the plasma of a man who lived in Congo in 1959.

The second time, the virus was found in the tissue of a 15-year-old boy from St. Louis (USA) who died in 1969, and the third case was recorded in Norwegian sailor Arvid Noe, who died in 1976.

Today in there world, HIV has infected 33 million people, and 2.5 millions only in 2007. I Croatia this year not even one person died from AIDS, while in the world, in the past year, 2.1 million people died.

Curing AIDS

The medicines which exist now on the markets of developed countries only actually prevent the virus from entering the cell and its further spreading to other people-

Thus, infected people are actually carrying out a battle like other people infected by any other chronicle disease, because the virus remains in the body till the rest of their lives.

Thanks to the several campaigns and organisations who fight against the spreading of this disease, an improvement is already visible. However, the prevention and the cures are still pretty unobtainable in undeveloped countries where the number of infected people is the highest.

The United Nations made a plan, and in their strategy reach the aim to increase the possibilities of prevention, of obtaining medicines and providence for 9.8 million infected people around the world by 2010.