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HIV/AIDS: Why It Is So Important To Use Condoms - Even With Birth Control
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HIV/AIDS: Why It Is So Important To Use Condoms - Even With Birth Control
by Byron K. Daniels, PBT
(inspired by Anonymous poster)
Overview
Between the start and end of the passionate moment of reproduction, there is a thin line. No one knows love nor hate, for it was before us. (Ecclesiastes 718) How could it be that you say "I love you", yet you put me at risk to die? Furthermore, how could someone hate me, save my life from jepordy? We do however, know passion. If we experience passion before reproduction, we have waited too late - to protect ourselves. Yes, passion will not be disrupted, even for life saving measures. (Ecclesiastes 718)
HIV/AIDS Statistics HIV/AIDS WORLDWIDE
As of the end of 2003, an estimated 37.8 million people worldwide - 35.7 million adults and 2.1
million children younger than 15 years - were living with HIV/AIDS. Approximately two-thirds of these people (25.0 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa; another 20 percent (7.4 million) live in Asia and the Pacific.
(1) Worldwide, approximately 11 of every 1000 adults aged 15 to 49 are HIV-infected. In Sub-Saharan Africa, about 7.5 percent of all adults in this age group are HIV-infected. Woman
account for nearly half of all people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS.
(1) An estimated 4.8 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide during 2003; that is, about 14,000 infections each day. More than 95 percent of these new infections occurred in developing countries.(1) In 2003, approximately 1,700 children under the age of 15 years, and
6,000 young people aged 15 to 24 years became infected with HIV every day.
(1) More than 20 million people with HIV/AIDS have died since the first AIDS cases were identified in 1981. (1) In 2003 alone, HIV/AIDS-associated illnesses caused the deaths of approximately 2.9 million people worldwide, including an estimated 490,000 children
younger than 15 years.
HIV/AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 850,000 to 950,000 U.S. residents are living with HIV infection, one-quarter of whom are unaware of their infection. (2) Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70
percent among men and 30 percent among women.
Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age. (3,4) Of new infections among men in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 60 percent of men were infected through homosexual sex, 25 percent through injection drug use, and 15 percent through heterosexual sex.
Of newly infected men, approximately 50 percent are black, 30 percent are white, 20 percent are Hispanic, and a small percentage are members of other racial/ethnic groups. (4) Of new
infections among women in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 75 percent of women were infected through heterosexual sex and 25 percent through injection drug use.
Of newly infected women, approximately 64 percent are black, 18 percent are white, 18
percent are Hispanic, and a small percentage are members of other racial/ethnic groups. (4) The estimated number of AIDS diagnoses through 2002 in the United States is 886,575.
Adult and adolescent AIDS cases total 877,275, with 718,002 cases in males and 159,271
cases in females. Through the same time period, 9,300 AIDS cases were estimated in children under age 13.
(5) The estimated number of new adult/adolescent AIDS diagnoses in the United States was 43,225 in 1998, 41,134 in 1999, 42,239 in 2000, 41,227 in 2001, and 42,136 in 2002. (5) The estimated number of new pediatric AIDS cases (cases among individuals younger than age 13) in the United States fell from 952 in 1992 to 92 in 2002.
(5) The estimated rate of adult/adolescent AIDS diagnoses in the United States in 2002 (per
100,000 population) was 76.4 among blacks, 26.0 among Hispanics, 11.2 among American Indians/Alaska Natives, 7.0 among whites, and 4.9 among Asians/Pacific Islanders. (5) From 1985 to 2002, the proportion of adult/adolescent AIDS cases in the United States reported in women increased from 7 percent to 26 percent.
(5) As of the end of 2002, an estimated 384,906 people in the United States were living with
AIDS. (5) As of December 31, 2002, an estimated 501,669 people with AIDS in the United States had died.
(5) The estimated annual number of AIDS-related deaths in the United States fell approximately 14 percent from 1998 to 2002, from 19,005 deaths in 1998 to 16,371 deaths in 2002. (5) Of the estimated 16,371 AIDS-related deaths in the United States in 2002, approximately 52 percent were among blacks, 28 percent among whites, 19 percent among Hispanics, and less than 1
percent among Asians/Pacific Islanders and American Indians/Alaska Natives.
Conclusion
Birth Control Pills does not protect against HIV infection (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases. (Ever-Changing Medicine, Inc. Yasmin©) Today, the HIV/AIDS epidemic represents a growing and persistent health threat to women in the United States, especially young women and women of color. In the United States, women, particularly women of color, are at risk for HIV.
REFERENCES
Ever-Changing Medicine, Inc.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Fact Sheet - HIV/AIDS Among Women- CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
(1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Global HIV/AIDS
(4,5) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: HIV/AIDS Prevention in the United States
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator's Office,
the Department of Health and Human Services: CDC Global AIDS Program (GAP)
Ecclesiastes; or the Preacher: Ecclesiastes
Gideons Holy Bible; chap. 9, verse 1, p. 718.
Ecclesiastes; or the Preacher: Ecclesiastes
Gideons Holy Bible; chap. 9, verse 8, p. 718.
The Prison Hospital
Prisoner: Look here, doctor! You've already removed my spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and one of my kidneys. I only came to see if you could get me out of this place!
Doctor: I am, bit by bit.
-- Aha! Jokes
(This post was edited by bgilley on Aug 22, 2005, 1:56 PM)
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