A gist of the contents at the URL:
UN: HIV Infections Rising in Asia.
www.foodconsumer.org, November 21, 2005.
National HIV infection levels in Asia are low compared with some other continents, notably Africa. However, the populations of many Asian nations are so large that even low national HIV prevalence means large numbers of people are living with HIV. Latest estimates show some 8.3 million [5.4 million - 12 million] people (2 million [1.3 million - 3 million] adult women) were living with HIV in 2005, including the 1.1 million [600 000 - 2.5 million] people who became newly infected in the past year. AIDS claimed some 520 000 [330 000 - 780 000] lives in 2005.
Risky behaviour - often more than one form - continues to sustain serious AIDS epidemics in Asia. At the heart of many of Asia's epidemics lies the interplay between injecting drug use and unprotected sex, much of it commercial. Yet prevention strategies still rarely reflect the fact that such combinations of risk-taking exist in virtually every country in the region. As a result, many of the epidemics in Asia are in transition,including in those countries where the spread of HIV to date has been contained.
