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Bookmark or Share- HIV - World Health Organization (WHO)An estimated 0.6% [0.6-0.7%] of adults aged 15–49 years worldwide are living with HIV, although the burden of the epidemic continues to vary considerably between countries and regions. The WHO African Region remains most severely affected, with one in every 30 adults (3.4%) living with HIV and accounting for more than two-thirds of the people ...
- HIV - Global - World Health Organization (WHO)Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the white blood cells called CD4 cells. HIV destroys these CD4 cells, weakening a person’s immunity against opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis and fungal infections, severe bacterial infections and some cancers.
- HIV data and statistics - World Health Organization (WHO)HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, claiming 42.3 million [35.7–51.1 million] lives so far. Testing, treatment and viral load suppression cascades among all people living with HIV . By 2025, 95% of people living with HIV should know their HIV status (first 95) In 2023, 86% [69–>98%] of people living with HIV knew their ...
- HIV - India - World Health Organization (WHO)The most advanced stage of HIV infection is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The most common route of transmission of HIV infection in India is unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, followed by mother to child transmission during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, sharing of contaminated needles, injecting drug ...
- A seventh case of HIV cure reported at AIDS 2024During the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024), being held in Munich, Germany, a new case of long HIV remission was reported and fuels optimism for an eventual HIV cure. In 2007, Timothy Brown, the so-called first Berlin patient, was the first person to be considered cured of HIV.
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