The state of HIV/AIDS in Canada

Despite the virus only being identified in 1984 around 35 million people globally have died from it and there are thought to be 34 million living with the viruses – 100,000 of those here in the UK. You can use AIDS.gov’s HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator And thanks to the Affordable Care Act, most healthcare plans offer HIV testing without any co-pay or deductible.

“I think it’s important for us to remember that we have not gotten rid” of HIV and AIDS, county health director Karen Hacker said. According to UNAIDS estimates, expanding ART to all people living with HIV and expanding prevention choices can help avert 21 million AIDS-related deaths and 28 million new infections by 2030.

A year ago there were more than 4,000 new cases reported in the state of Texas. Today HIV and AIDS is disproportionately affecting young black gay and bisexual men, mainly because of the lack of testing and treatment within the community. Georgia ranks second in the country for the diagnosis of new HIV infections, and Atlanta ranks fifth among similar metropolitan areas in the country for new diagnoses.

This is not mere a statistic, this is the warning for the world that how unsafe HIV is and what are the possible ways to fight this epidemic.

Chan told CTV’s Canada AM that an estimated 20 per cent of injection drug users in Vancouver’s downtown eastside are HIV-positive, while Canada-wide, an estimated 25 per cent of people who are living with the HIV virus are not aware of it.

World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988.

In the United Kingdom, an estimated 103,700 people live with HIV every day of the year.

“The approach to tackling HIV transmission is outdated”, said Aditya Wardhana, from Indonesia AIDS Coalition, adding that official efforts focused on groups such as sex workers, but the virus had now spread through the whole population of Papua.

Free testing is available at all county health departments.

Elaborating on OST, Nadda said: “It is one of the components under the harm reduction strategy and is an evidence-based medical treatment for dependence on opioid drugs”.