Country People living with HIV/AIDS Adult (15-49) prevalence % Women with HIV/AIDS Children with HIV/AIDS AIDS deaths Orphans due to AIDS Liberia 37,000 1.5 19,000 6,100 3,600 52,000 Madagascar 24,000 0.2 7,300 ... 1,700 11,000 Malawi 920,000 11.0 470,000 120,000 51,000 650,000 Mali 76,000 1.0 40,000 ... 4,400 59,000 Mauritania 14,000 0.7 4,000 ...
Continued from page 37 - 125 Priests, Lay Clergy involved in Sex Abuse Cases A sharp decline in the number of Catholic priests, the exodus of thousands of pastors who marry and leave the priesthood, coupled with sexual scandals of clerics and the lawsuits being filed against many of them for sexually abusing children in their care, has sparked international debates to eliminate the celibacy requirement for the priesthood and institute the ordination of married priests. http://www.thenews.<strong>com</strong>.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspxID=6860 3&Cat=6 ☻☻☻☻☻☻ HIV and AIDS Cases rise 22 percent in D.C. At least 3 percent living in nation’s capital are infected, officials report March 15, 2009 A new report by D.C. health officials says that at least 3 percent of residents in the nation’s capital are living with HIV or AIDS and every mode of transmission is on the rise. The findings in the 2008 epidemiology report by the D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration point to a severe epidemic that’s impacting every race and sex across the population and neighborhoods. Scheduled to be released Monday, the report says that the number of HIV and AIDS cases jumped 22 percent from the nearly 12,500 reported in 2006. Almost 1 in 10 residents between ages 40 and 49 are living with HIV, and black men had the highest infection rate at almost 7 percent. The report says that the virus is most often transmitted by men having sex with men, followed by heterosexual transmission and injection drug use. http://www.msnbc.msn.<strong>com</strong>/id/29707732/ns/healthaids/#.ToAMnOxRIrU ☻☻☻☻☻☻ US Withdraws HIV/AIDS Support September 19, 2011 Daily Monitor By Stephen Otage Kampala The US government has announced withdrawal of financial support for malaria and HIV/Aids treatment in Uganda. The US mission in Kampala made the announcement during unveiling of a multi-million TASO office <strong>com</strong>plex named ‘House of Hope’ in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, on Friday. It is through the <strong>com</strong>plex that TASO hopes to start raising money for financing its activities when the US government finally pulls out. “We have ac<strong>com</strong>plished enough in our fight against the epidemic but there is a huge amount of work to do. America’s <strong>com</strong>mitment to helping you in the fight will not waiver but we cannot be the only source of funding in this effort. We must follow TASO’s example and look outside the box to find creative ways to fund and sustain our efforts to improve the health of Ugandans,” Mr Michael Strong, the Coordinator of US agencies, said. Although he declined to <strong>com</strong>ment exactly when the US government will pull out and the sectors which will be affected, he said TASO is among the organisations which have been benefiting from the fund. Last year alone, over one million women tested HIV positive. The agencies implementing the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) fund include the US department of state USAID, the Centres for Disease Control, the US Department of Defence and the Peace Corps. According to Mr Strong, the US government injected $400 million (1.1trillion) in financing the health projects, including $300 million (843b) support to the national response to HIV/Aids epidemic. He added that PEPFAR fund has been financing TASO’s activities in 11 service centres mainly <strong>com</strong>prehensive HIV/Aids prevention, care, treatment and related support services to HIV-positive people and families. The news <strong>com</strong>es at a time when Uganda, which was once globally recognised as having reversed the incidence of the infection burden which had reached epidemic levels, is said to be losing the fight. It is estimated that last year alone, 120,000 new infections were registered while half of the same number died. It is also estimated that currently, 1.2 million Ugandans are living with HIV/Aids and the cost of their treatment and preventing new infections is growing every day. http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/- /688334/1238678/-/bj75h4z/-/index.html ☻☻☻☻☻☻ -41- <strong>Traditional</strong> <strong>African</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> October 2011
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