艾滋病流行病学

Epidemiology of AIDS

This paper described epidemic situation in the whole world and China, transmission routes, associated risk factors in China, and measures of controlling epidemic of HIV/AIDS Globally, 53 1 million adults and children were HIV/AIDS by the end of 1999 Of them 18 8 million adults and children died from HIV/AIDS More than 95 percent of those infected with HIV live in developing countries In 1999, 5 4 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 2 6 million people died of AIDS Africa, especially in sub Saharan Africa, is the serious region of HIV/AIDS epidemic HIV/AIDS in Asia and Eastern Europe is dramatically increasing, but infective rate in developed countries has begun to decrease In China, since the first case was found in 1985, 17316 HIV/AIDS cases were reported, of them 647 cases were diagnosed as AIDS, of them 367 cases died from AIDS HIV may be transmitted through unsafe sexual practice, contaminative blood or blood products, injection drug use or perinatal transmission Unsafe sexual behavior is the major transmission of HIV/AIDS in the whole world, but in China, injecting drug use is the major transmission of HIV/AIDS And many risk factors, such as lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, drug user and commercial sexual behavior increasing, floating population and sexual norm changing, et al, may accelerate expansion of HIV/AIDS of China Based on this situation, we should actively reinforce prevention and control of HIV/AIDS through surveillance, health education, behavior intervention of high risk groups, cases treatment and vaccine

This paper described epidemic situation in the whole world and China, transmission routes, associated risk factors in China, and measures of controlling epidemic of HIV/AIDS Globally, 53 1 million adults and children were HIV/AIDS by the end of 1999 Of them 18 8 million adults and children died from HIV/AIDS More than 95 percent of those infected with HIV live in developing countries In 1999, 5 4 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 2 6 million people died of AIDS Africa, especially in sub Saharan Africa, is the serious region of HIV/AIDS epidemic HIV/AIDS in Asia and Eastern Europe is dramatically increasing, but infective rate in developed countries has begun to decrease In China, since the first case was found in 1985, 17316 HIV/AIDS cases were reported, of them 647 cases were diagnosed as AIDS, of them 367 cases died from AIDS HIV may be transmitted through unsafe sexual practice, contaminative blood or blood products, injection drug use or perinatal transmission Unsafe sexual behavior is the major transmission of HIV/AIDS in the whole world, but in China, injecting drug use is the major transmission of HIV/AIDS And many risk factors, such as lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, drug user and commercial sexual behavior increasing, floating population and sexual norm changing, et al, may accelerate expansion of HIV/AIDS of China Based on this situation, we should actively reinforce prevention and control of HIV/AIDS through surveillance, health education, behavior intervention of high risk groups, cases treatment and vaccine development