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Do not fill this in! == Epidemiology == {{Main|Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS}} {{Image frame |width=520<!-- Must be kept at this size at this point (December 2017) --> |content ={{Global Heat Maps by Year| title=| table=HIV rates.tab| column=HIV_rate| columnName=Percent of people with HIV/AIDS| year=2017}} |caption=Percentage of people with HIV/AIDS<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=HIV / AIDS |url=https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids |journal=Our World in Data |access-date=October 4, 2019 |date=April 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004044032/https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids |archive-date=October 4, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> |align=right }} [[File:Deaths-and-new-cases-of-hiv.png|thumb|upright=1.8|Trends in new cases and deaths per year from HIV/AIDS<ref name="auto"/>]] HIV/AIDS is considered a global [[pandemic]].<ref name=Cohen2008>{{cite journal |vauthors=Cohen MS, Hellmann N, Levy JA, DeCock K, Lange J |title=The spread, treatment, and prevention of HIV-1: evolution of a global pandemic |journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation |volume=118 |issue=4 |pages=1244–54 |date=April 2008 |pmid=18382737 |pmc=2276790 |doi=10.1172/JCI34706}}</ref> {{As of|2022}}, approximately 39.0 million people worldwide are living with HIV, the number of new infections that year being about 1.3 million.<ref name=":0"/> This is down from 2.1 million new infections in 2010.<ref name=":0"/> Among new infections, 46% are in women and are children globally.<ref name=":0"/> There were 630,000 AIDS related deaths in 2022, down from a peak of 2 million in 2005.<ref name=":0"/> Among persons living with HIV (PLWH), the largest proportion reside in eastern and southern Africa (20.6 million, 54.6%). This region also had the highest rate of adult and child deaths due to AIDS in 2020 (310,000, 46.6%). Sub-Saharan African adolescent girls and young women (aged 15–24 years) account for 77% of new infections among this age-range globally <ref name=":0"/> Here, in contrast to other regions, adolescent girls and young women are three times more likely to acquire HIV than age-matched males.<ref name=":0"/> Despite these statistics, overall, new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have substantially decreased in this region since 2010.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last=Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS |title=UNAIDS Data 2021 |url=https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/JC3032_AIDS_Data_book_2021_En.pdf |access-date=December 1, 2023 |website=UNAIDS 2021 Reference |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207155450/https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/JC3032_AIDS_Data_book_2021_En.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Eastern Europe and central Asia has observed a 43% increase in new HIV infections and 32% increase in AIDS-related deaths since 2010, the highest of all global regions.<ref name=":2"/> These infections are predominantly distributed in persons who inject drugs, with gay men and other men who have sex with men or persons who engage in transaction sex the second and third populations most impacted in this region.<ref name=":2"/> At the end of 2019, United States indicated that approximately 1.2 million people aged ≥13 years were living with HIV, resulting in about 18,500 deaths in 2020.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |date=August 10, 2022 |title=Statistics Overview |url=https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/index.html |access-date=December 1, 2023 |website=U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |archive-date=December 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207084250/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> There were 34,800 estimated new infections in the US in 2019, 53% of which were in the southern region of the country.<ref name=":3"/> In addition to geographic location, significant disparities in HIV incidence exist among men, Black or Hispanic populations, and men who reported male-to-male sexual contact. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that in that year, 158,500 people or 13% of infected Americans were unaware of their infection.<ref name=":3"/> In the [[HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] {{as of|2015|lc=y}}, there were approximately 101,200 cases which resulted in 594 deaths.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602942/HIV_in_the_UK_report.pdf |title=HIV in the United Kingdom: 2016 Report |author=Public Health England |year=2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425115254/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602942/HIV_in_the_UK_report.pdf |archive-date=April 25, 2017 }}</ref> In Canada as of 2008, there were about 65,000 cases causing 53 deaths.<ref>{{cite book |last=Surveillance |title=HIV and AIDS in Canada: surveillance report to December 31, 2009 |year=2010 |publisher=Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division |location=Ottawa |isbn=978-1-100-52141-1 |url=http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/publication/survreport/2009/dec/pdf/2009-Report-Rapport.pdf |author2=riques, Risk Assessment Division = Le VIH et le sida au Canada: rapport de surveillance en date du 31 décembre 2009 / Division de la surveillance et de l'évaluation des |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119164919/http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/publication/survreport/2009/dec/pdf/2009-Report-Rapport.pdf |archive-date=January 19, 2012 }}</ref> Between the first recognition of AIDS (in 1981) and 2009, it has led to nearly 30 million deaths.<ref name="TotalDeath2010">{{cite web |title=Global Report Fact Sheet |url=http://www.unaids.org/documents/20101123_FS_Global_em_en.pdf |website=UNAIDS |year=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916231221/http://www.unaids.org/documents/20101123_FS_Global_em_en.pdf |archive-date=September 16, 2013 }}</ref> Rates of HIV are lowest in North Africa and the Middle East (0.1% or less), [[East Asia]] (0.1%), and Western and Central Europe (0.2%).<ref name="UN2011Fifty">UNAIDS 2011 pp. 40–50</ref> The worst-affected European countries, in 2009 and 2012 estimates, are [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Latvia]], [[Moldova]], [[Portugal]] and [[Belarus]], in decreasing order of prevalence.<ref>{{cite web |title=Country Comparison :: HIV/AIDS – Adult Prevalence Rate |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2155rank.html |website=CIA World Factbook |access-date=November 6, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221190412/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2155rank.html|archive-date=December 21, 2014 }}</ref> Groups at higher risk of acquiring HIV include persons who engage in [[transactional sex]], [[gay men]] and other [[men who have sex with men]], [[Drug injection|persons who inject drugs]], [[Transgender|transgender persons]], and those who are [[Prison|incarcerated]] or [[Prison|detained]].<ref name=":0"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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