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Approximately 7 million people in the Asia-Pacific Region are infected
with the HIV/AIDS virus.
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Infections grew by 70% from 1996-1998.
The W.H.O. estimates a 300% rise in HIV and a 600% rise in AIDS cases by
the year 2003.
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India -4 million people infected. (No. 1 in world)
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Cambodia -5%
of population has HIV or AIDS
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Thailand
- About 2% infected
- More than 5000 children born each
year with HIV
- About 63,000 children under the
age of 15 will be infected by 2000 and 47,000 will die of AIDS
- More than 100,000 will have lost
their mothers to AIDS by 2000 (1/3 under age of 5)
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Malaysia
-
Documented
HIV cases in 1993 = 6,000
-
Documented
HIV cases in 1999 = 31,000
TB:
1999
14,000
1996
10,000
1990
7,800
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China
-
400,000
estimated infections
-
14,000
new cases in first 6 months of 1999
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Burma
-
Approximately
2% infected
-
90%
of IDUs in some regions have HIV
Economic
Crisis in 1997-98:
·
80% increase in people going into the sex industry in Thailand and
Philippines
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Real wages decline by up to 30% in Indonesia
·
Sharp increase in HIV infection among Thai IDUs in early 1998, from 40 to
48% (crisis/random?)
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At least US$30 billion withdrawn from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and
Thailand