By: Ryan Gomes

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HIV / AIDS
Statistics

• By Ryan Gomes

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Background Information

• HIV Stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
• HIV developes over time into its more severe form
  of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
• The first case of HIV/AIDS in Canada was only
  discovered 20 years ago.
• There is no Vaccine to prevent the disease.
• There is no cure for HIV/AIDS

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Statistics

• At the end of 2002, Health Canada estimated there
  were approximately 56,000 people in Canada living
  with HIV (including those living with AIDS),
• Approximately 17,000 or 30 were not aware that
  they were infected.
• More than 25 million people have died of AIDS
  since 1981.
• Africa has 12 million AIDS orphans.

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• Young people (under 25 years old) account for
  half of all new HIV infections worldwide - around
  6,000 become infected with HIV every day.
• In developing and transitional countries, 7.1
  million people are in immediate need of
  life-saving AIDS drugs of these, only 2.015
  million (28) are receiving the drugs.
• At the end of 2006, women accounted for 48 of
  all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 59
  in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The number of people living with HIV has risen
from around 8 million in 1990 to nearly 40
million today, and is still growing. Around 63
of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan
Africa.
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• HIV/AIDS is transmitted a number of different
  ways, it can be transmitted through
• Unprotected sex
• Sharing of needles or equipment for injecting
  drugs
• Unsterilized needles for tattooing or piercing.
• Breast feeding infants
• Occupational exposure in health care settings

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This pie graph shows the percentage of HIV/AIDS
cases in the world.
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• HIV works by slowly weakening the immune
  system leaving the patient vulnerable to
  infection. HIV normally takes about 10 years to
  become AIDS. AIDS actually does not cause the
  infected individual to die, the infections
  contracted is what kills them. Therefore even a
  common cold can be severely dangerous for those
  with AIDS.

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