REVISED U.N. FIGURES FIND AIDS DECLINING OVER PAST TEN YEARS
LA TIMES - The United Nations radically lowered years of estimates of the number of people worldwide infected by the AIDS virus, revealing that the growth of the AIDS pandemic is waning for the first time since HIV was discovered 26 years ago. The revised figures, which were the result of much more sophisticated sampling techniques, indicate that the number of new infections peaked in 1998 and the number of deaths peaked in 2005.
UNAIDS estimated that about 2.5 million people will be infected with the AIDS virus, called HIV, this year -- a 40% drop from the 2006 estimate. The report also says that about 33 million people worldwide are infected with the virus, compared with last year's estimate of almost 40 million.
Reports over the last decade or longer have portrayed a disease spiraling out of control, but improved methods of counting people with AIDS have unveiled a different picture.
2 Comments:
Wait just a minute here. This is not a sign that things are rosy. Adjusting faulty estimates tells us nothing about the current infection rate. We'll have to wait until the second set of statistics usiing the new methods before we'll have anything useful to say about trends.
I don't see how the U.N., having condoned the rape of Yugoslavia , ditched a Secretary General and sucked the U.S. butt on Iraq, Palestine. and Iran has any credibility on anything, particularly circumstances in poor countries.
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