AIDS epidemic update : December 2002 / [UNAIDS/WHO, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Epidemiology.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Epidemiology.

HIV infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : UNAIDS, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This annual update provides global and regional estimates of HIV/AIDS and its impact. It also reviews the most recent data available from countries and discusses the trends in HIV in countries around the world. UNAIDS and WHO, together with experts from national AIDS programmes and research institutions, regularly review and update the estimates as improved knowledge about the epidemic becomes available, while also drawing on advances made in the methods for deriving estimates.

Contents:

CONTENTS; GLOBAL SUMMARY OF THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, DECEMBER 2002; INTRODUCTION; ASIA AND THE PACIFIC; EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA; HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES; HIV/AIDS AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES; HIV/AIDS and southern Africa's food crisis; HIV/AIDS in conflict settings; MAPS; Global estimates for adults and children, end 2002; Adults and children estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, end 2002; Estimated number of adults and children newly infected with HIV during 2002

Estimated adult and child deaths due to HIV/AIDS during 2002

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

92-9173-649-X

0-585-46829-X

OCLC:

630529199