What countries have the highest percentage of people dying from AIDS every year?

Question

Is there a website that uses recent statistics to rank countries by how bad the problem is?

Answer 1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/HIV_Epidem.png

Answer 2

A good source for AIDS info is the bbc news web site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4456900.stm

I believe the highest percentage of people dying from AIDS is currently in South Africa. The country with the most people suffering I believe is India (but with over 1 billion people, it's makes sense).

There has recently been uproar about the health minister in South Africa, who stated people with AIDS should try ginger, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5265432.stm

Answer 3

Here hun here is a link to a web site that has broken it down into several categories the HIV/aids around the world giving you percentages and numbers of people living with this Virus
HUGS
Robecca

Answer 4

Its official now, there IS an Aids vaccine about to be released to the world market! Was onTV this week. What a surprise that was I have been hearing about it for three years now I even know who makes it.

Answer 5

I found a map that highlights prevalence of AIDs in adults.

Answer 6

Africa, so to the aids website....there have several good ones...

Answer 7

Africa, US and China is the last I heard.

Answer 8

UNAIDS and the WHO estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 2.8 million (between 2.4 and 3.3 million) lives in 2005 of which more than half a million (570,000) were children.[5]

Globally, between 33.4 and 46 million people currently live with HIV.[5] In 2005, between 3.4 and 6.2 million people were newly infected and between 2.4 and 3.3 million people with AIDS died, an increase from 2003 and the highest number since 1981.[5]

Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst affected region, with an estimated 21.6 to 27.4 million people currently living with HIV. Two million [1.5–3.0 million] of them are children younger than 15 years of age. More than 64% of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, as are more than three quarters (76%) of all women living with HIV. In 2005, there were 12.0 million [10.6–13.6 million] AIDS orphans living in sub-Saharan Africa 2005.[5] South & South East Asia are second worst affected with 15%. AIDS accounts for the deaths of 500,000 children in this region. Two-thirds of HIV/AIDS infections in Asia occur in India, with an estimated 5.7 million infections (estimated 3.4 - 9.4 million) (0.9% of population), surpassing South Africa's estimated 5.5 million (4.9-6.1 million) (11.9% of population) infections, making it the country with the highest number of HIV infections in the world.[92] In the 35 African nations with the highest prevalence, average life expectancy is 48.3 years— 6.5 years less than it would be without the disease.[93]

The latest evaluation report of the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level HIV/AIDS assistance, defined as policy dialogue, analytic work, and lending, with the explicit objective of reducing the scope or impact of the AIDS epidemic.[94] This is the first comprehensive evaluation of the World Bank's HIV/AIDS support to countries, from the beginning of the epidemic through mid-2004. Because the Bank's assistance is for implementation of government programs by government, it provides important insights on how national AIDS programs can be made more effective.

The development of HAART as effective therapy for HIV infection and AIDS has substantially reduced the death rate from this disease in those areas where it is widely available. This has created the misperception that the disease has gone away. In fact, as the life expectancy of persons with AIDS has increased in countries where HAART is widely used, the number of persons living with AIDS has increased substantially. In the United States, the number of persons with AIDS increased from about 35,000 in 1988 to over 220,000 in 1996.[95]

In Africa, the number of MTCT and the prevalence of AIDS is beginning to reverse decades of steady progress in child survival. Countries such as Uganda are attempting to curb the MTCT epidemic by offering VCT (voluntary counseling and testing), PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) and ANC (ante-natal care) services, which include the distribution of antiretroviral therapy.

Answer 9

I think it's India

Answer 10

I believe its kenya