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| CHILDREN
WITH AIDS |
| “Fathers
have eaten green grapes thus their children’s teeth are on edge
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World Health Organisation estimates that in the world more than
40 million people suffer from AIDS and that last year more than
2.6 million died of AIDS and there were 5 million new cases
among adults and 700,000 among children. |
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Vatican City (Fides Service) –
Although AIDS is not longer a front page subject, in Italy there are
thousands of new cases of HIV + persons every year. Italian children
with HIV/AIDS (about 600) no longer die because they are treated with
the new antiretroviral therapy but many in adolescence refuse treatment
and rules of social life. This is because until recent years, families
and society invested little on these children destined at the time
to die: no schooling, group life, or socialisation. Even today their
integration in society is still difficult.
Children and young people are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS virus.
The causes are many, social and economic but the most serious are
poverty, abuse, no access to information about HIV/AIDS and its prevention.
In 2001 the world had 14 million AIDS orphans and the number may double
by 2010; in 2001 there were 800,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS among children
almost all transmitted mother to child. In 2002 about 11.8 million
young people aged 15 and 24 mostly girls were infected. (AP) (3/4/2004
Agenzia Fides)
WHO table of under 5-mortality rate 2002
IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000
U5MR = under 5 morality rate per 1000
U5MR (ratio)
| country |
IMR |
U5MR |
U5MR(ratio) |
| Africa |
| Algeria |
41.4 |
10.3 |
50.5 |
| Angola |
172.5 |
65.7 |
293.7 |
| Benin |
103.9 |
37.1 |
173 |
| Botswana |
69.5 |
22.1 |
109.4 |
| Burkina Faso |
127.1 |
53.5 |
244.1 |
| Burundi |
122 |
43.1 |
196.7 |
| Cameroon |
100.1 |
36.3 |
172.1 |
| Cape Verde |
29.3 |
7.5 |
36.9 |
| Central African Republic |
132.9 |
41.8 |
198.4 |
| Chad |
120.2 |
45.2 |
203.8 |
| Comoros |
62.6 |
16.8 |
78.5 |
| Congo |
71 |
23.5 |
108 |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
122.6 |
39.6 |
180.1 |
| Democratic Republic of theCongo |
137.9 |
49.8 |
230 |
| Equatorial Guinea |
99.9 |
34.9 |
158.1 |
| Eritrea |
69.7 |
25.1 |
117.9 |
| Ethiopia |
122 |
41.6 |
189.5 |
| Gabon |
66.1 |
20 |
92.2 |
| Gambia |
83.4 |
28 |
130.7 |
| Ghana |
63.2 |
22.4 |
107 |
| Guinea |
97.9 |
36.2 |
166.5 |
| Guinea-Bissau |
135.2 |
49.4 |
223.7 |
| Kenya |
85 |
26.3 |
120.7 |
| Lesotho |
111.4 |
36.8 |
178.4 |
| Liberia |
150.6 |
60.8 |
237 |
| Madagascar |
92.5 |
30.7 |
142.2 |
| Malawi |
125.2 |
45.3 |
210 |
| Mali |
141.1 |
55.7 |
246.9 |
| Mauritania |
112.3 |
39.9 |
181.3 |
| Mauritius |
14.7 |
3.1 |
17.8 |
| Mozambique |
162.1 |
49.4 |
230.1 |
| Namibia |
64.6 |
20.4 |
99.5 |
| Niger |
131.7 |
61.7 |
272.1 |
| Nigeria |
110.7 |
41.9 |
197 |
| Rwanda |
117.7 |
41.6 |
191 |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
55.5 |
17.2 |
84.6 |
| Senegal |
74.4 |
29.7 |
140 |
| Seychelles |
9.8 |
2.3 |
13.2 |
| Sierra Leone |
208.9 |
82.8 |
365.2 |
| South Africa |
59.7 |
17.9 |
86.8 |
| Swaziland |
98.7 |
32.6 |
157.1 |
| Togo |
87 |
31 |
145.6 |
| Uganda |
91.6 |
32.8 |
147.4 |
| United Republic of tanzania |
116.7 |
35.1 |
166.2 |
| Zambia |
119.4 |
42.4 |
200.5 |
| Zimbabwe |
76.5 |
24.3 |
117.9 |
| The Americas |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
16.4 |
4.2 |
20.2 |
| Argentina |
15.6 |
3.6 |
18.1 |
| Bahamas |
8.7 |
2.3 |
12.2 |
| Barbados |
14.2 |
3.2 |
16 |
| Belize |
32.6 |
7.9 |
40.2 |
| Bolivia |
62 |
16 |
79.1 |
| Brazil |
35.6 |
8.1 |
39.5 |
| Canada |
4.9 |
1.1 |
5.7 |
| Chile |
12.3 |
2.9 |
14.6 |
| Colombia |
21.6 |
4.6 |
23.5 |
| Costa Rica |
9.4 |
2.3 |
11.2 |
| Cuba |
5.8 |
1.5 |
7.5 |
| Dominica |
10.9 |
2.8 |
13.3 |
| Dominican Republic |
28.7 |
7.1 |
34.2 |
| Ecuador |
23.5 |
6.5 |
32.5 |
| El slavador |
27.2 |
7.2 |
35.9 |
| Grenada |
17.4 |
4.7 |
22.8 |
| Guatemala |
45.3 |
11.5 |
55.8 |
| Guyana |
43.9 |
11.4 |
57.7 |
| Haiti |
95.9 |
30.6 |
139.4 |
| Honduras |
35.3 |
8.9 |
44.4 |
| Jamaica |
12.4 |
3 |
15.5 |
| Mexico |
23.6 |
5.5 |
27.8 |
| Nicaragua |
30.5 |
7.2 |
36.1 |
| Panama |
17.9 |
4.7 |
23.8 |
| Paraguay |
25.4 |
6.6 |
32.2 |
| Peru |
28.1 |
7.5 |
37 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
17.5 |
4.5 |
21.8 |
| Saint Lucia |
12.2 |
2.8 |
14.7 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
18.8 |
4.7 |
22.7 |
| Suriname |
24.3 |
6.2 |
31.4 |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
18.3 |
4.3 |
21.4 |
| United States of America |
6.7 |
1.5 |
8.1 |
| Uruguay |
13.3 |
3.1 |
15.5 |
| Venezuela |
17.4 |
4.3 |
21.3 |
(WHO 2002) (AP) (3/4/2004 Agenzia Fides) |
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