According to
UNAIDS estimates, there were 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million
children living with HIV at the end of 2004, and during the year
4.9 million new people became infected with the virus. Around
half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they
are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. 95% of the total
number of people with HIV/AIDS live in the developing world. But
HIV still remains a threat to people of all ages and nationalities.
Young people
are especially vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs). Even if they are not engaging in risk behaviours
today, they may soon be exposed to situations that put them at
risk.
In many countries
60% of all new HIV infections are among 15-24 year-olds.
Also the highest
rates of STDs are usually found in the age range 20-24 years,
followed by 15-19 years.
Since the first
days ofthe epidemic, AIDShas been as much acommunications and
political struggle as amedical and scientific one.
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