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HIV / AIDS

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During the first decade of the epidemic, there
was very little to offer someone dying from AIDS.
The best you could hope for was that your family
wouldnt throw you out. You would have been
extremely fortunate to have someone care for you
at the end, either at home or in hospice care.
MICHEL SIDIB
UN AIDS

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV AIDS

1981
HIV AIDS

A brief history

1981-1985 MYSTERY AND CONFUSION

1986-1990 PANIC AND PROTEST

1991-1995 DEATH AND DARKNESS

1996-2000 HOPE AND UNCERTAINTY

2001-2005 COMMITMENT AND MOBILIZATION

2006-2010 SETTING TARGETS FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESS

2011-2015 MEASURING IMPACT


What is HIV?

Source: Wikimedia Commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HIV-budding-Color.jpg


What is AIDS?
HIV Transmission
Unprotected penetrative (vaginal or anal) and oral sex
Blood transfusion with contaminated blood
Contaminated syringes, needles or other sharp instruments
Infected mother to her child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding
HIV AIDS

Global Statistics 2015


Global HIV
Proportion of all people aged 15-49 in 2007

Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).
HIV AIDS

Regional Differences 2015

More than two thirds of people with HIV


AIDS, live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
HIV AIDS

Global Statistics 2015

US$ 20.2 billion was invested in the AIDS response in low-


and middle-income countries.
Domestic resources constituted 57% of the total resources
available for AIDS in LMICs.
Between 2009 and 2014, 84 out of 121 low- and middle
income countries increased their domestic spending on
AIDS.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
HIV AIDS

MDGs

01 To have, by 2015, halted and begun to


reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

02 To provide special assistance to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

03 To encourage the pharmaceutical industry to make essential


drugs more widely available and affordable by all those who need
them in developing countries.

04 To help Africa build its capacity to tackle the spread of the


HIV/AIDS pandemic.
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
MDG TARGET
Have halted by 2015 and
begun to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS.

Source: UN Millennium Declaration Report - 2010


HIV AIDS

Global Statistics 2015

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV Transmission in Canada

55% Men who have sex with men

10% Injection Drug Use

32% heterosexual contact

http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/publications/diseases-conditions-maladies-affections/hiv-aids-estimates-2014-vih-sida-estimations/index-eng.php#a2
HIV prevalence in Canada

0.2% Prevalence

75,000 Canadian living with HIV

10% First Nations of all HIV cases in Canada

http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/publications/diseases-conditions-maladies-affections/hiv-aids-estimates-2014-vih-sida-estimations/index-eng.php#a2
HIGH RISK GROUPS
IV Drug Users

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIGH RISK GROUPS
Sex workers

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIGH RISK GROUPS
MSM

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV AIDS
Special populations

http://data.unaids.org/pub/Outlook/2010/20100713_outlook_report_web_en.pdf
Source: UN Photo Library

AIDS kills young people.


http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
Source: UN Photo Library

AIDS leaves orphans behind.


http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV AIDS

Prevention

Source: UN Photo Library


HIV Prevention

ABC Strategy

Abstain

Be faithful

Use condoms

Source: UN Photo Library


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0jQz6jqQS0
HIV PREVENTION

Politics & Moral Values

The New Yorker magazine (Nov 2008)


HIV PREVENTION

Politics & Moral Values

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/30/usa.aids
HIV PREVENTION

Concurrent partners

Source: UN Photo Library


http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
The male latex condom is the single, most
efficient, available technology to reduce the
sexual transmission of HIV.
UNAIDS, THE UN POPULATION FUND, AND WHO

Source: UN Photo Library


HIV AIDS

Condom use

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
Condom use with last high-risk partner
MEN AND WOMEN AGED 15-24, SELECTED SUB-SAHARAN COUNTRIES 2003/2008

Source: UN Millennium Declaration Report - 2010


CONDOM USE

MSM
CONDOM USE

Sex workers
HIV AIDS
Sex Workers

http://data.unaids.org/pub/Outlook/2010/20100713_outlook_report_web_en.pdf
HIV PREVENTION

Barriers to condom use

Source: http://www.unfpa.org/public/global/pid/387
HIV Prevention
Barriers to condom use

Source: UN Photo Library


HIV PREVENTION

Female condom

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HIV Knowledge by question
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 2003/2008

100
Males Females
80

60
(%)
correct
40

20

0
All 5 questions Having Condoms can A healthy Mosquitos do Sharing food
are correct only one prevent HIV looking person not transmit does not
faithful partner can have HIV HIV transmit HIV
can protect
against HIV

QUESTION

Source: UNGASS Country Progress Reports 2008.


HIV PREVENTION

Male circumcision

Reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV among men by


60 percent.

Recommended by the WHO and UNAIDS as an effective


prevention strategy.
HIV PREVENTION

Male circumcision
HIV PREVENTION

IV Drug use
READING
Pisani E. Sex, drugs and HIV let's get rational.
TED2010. Filmed Feb 2010.
HIV AIDS

Testing & Counselling


HIV AIDS

Testing
Detect anti-bodies produced in response to HIV.

Requires 3 to 12-weeks post infection

Confidential HIV test


Results kept confidential in medical records, but not shared without permission.

Anonymous HIV test


The tested person's name is not used in connection with the test. No records
are kept that would link the person to the test.
HIV AIDS

Testing

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV TESTING

High risk groups


HIV TESTING

High risk groups


HIV AIDS

Treatment

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HIV AIDS

Antiretroviral therapy (ART)

Combination therapy (HAART)


3 or 4 medicines at the same time makes it harder for the
virus to adapt and become resistant.

Reduces likelihood of transmitting virus to others.


HIV AIDS
Art & Mother to Child Transmission
(MTCT)

ARTs during pregnancy and


delivery critical

May include replacement


feeding

Possible to reduce transmission


rate to less than 1%

Source: UN Photo Library


MDG TARGET
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who
need it.

Source: UN Millennium Declaration Report - 2010


HIV AIDS

Treatment access to ART 2015

41% of all adults living with HIV, up from 23% in 2010.


32% of all children living with HIV, up from 14% in 2010.
73% of pregnant women living with HIV had access to
treatment to prevent transmissions.
New HIV infections among children were reduced by
58% from 2000 to 2014.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
HIV AIDS
Treatment Adherence

Lower among illicit drug users.

Similar rates of adherence between Africa and High income


countries.

Evidence on the benefit of directly observed treatment


equivocal.

Source: UN Photo Library


http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV AIDS

Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP)


Actions aimed at preventing infection in a person who may have
been exposed to the HIV infection

Provision of a short course (28 days) of antiretroviral drugs may


prevent HIV infections.
HIV AIDS

Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP)


TREATMENT

Access: Generics & pharmaceutical companies

http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/mapping_progress.asp
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
The end of AIDS
HIV infection as a chronic
disease.
Treatment
HIV Vaccine?

HIV TREATMENT

Vaccines
HIV AIDS
Discrimination

Source: UN Photo Library


Many people living with
HIV/AIDS are the most
stigmatised groups in society.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
Stigma and discrimination have a direct
effect on safe sex practices, testing,
treatment seeking, government action
and policies, criminalization, science, and
health care

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
peoples lives.
Family, job, housing. For many it is
the difference between life or death.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/HowAIDSchangedeverything/factsheet
HIV AIDS

Discrimination

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/MDG6Report_en.pdf
HIV AIDS

Discrimination
HIV AIDS

Discrimination
HIV TREATMENT

Access & Politics

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5235539.ece
READINGS
Fighting HIV On the Ground in South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIteYoa9ug
HIV AIDS

Counselling

Source: UN Photo Library


HIV AIDS

Testing & counselling


Source: UN Photo Library
Advocacy

Source: UN Photo Library


HIV AIDS

Advocacy
HIV AIDS

Advocacy

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