Thanks to the latest drugs and the use of combination therapy increased their life expectancy continues, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Friday. However, people having sex again unwary: The number of new infections is rising.
The average age of death from AIDS of 2007 was 50.0 years, while women on average 49.4 years and men 50.1 years old were. In 1997, patients with an average age of 42 died. Communication is the occasion of World AIDS Day on 1 December.
In 2007, yet 461 people died as a result of the immune deficiency disease, 43 fewer than the year before. Were particularly affected people 25 to 65 years: From AIDS to deceased people were 85.7 percent in this age, where the Group of 40 - to less than 45-year-olds the largest proportion (21 percent). 81 percent of the dead were male.
Nationwide, 1,822 were AIDS patients fell ill in the hospital treated and released. Compared with the year 2000, the figure dropped to 4,090 persons - a decrease of almost 70 percent.
However in 2007 increased the number of new cases in comparison with the previous year to 100 cases to approximately 2,800, as the Federal relying on data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) wrote. In the current year there were an estimated 3,000 have been even, representing a further increase would mean. According to experts, around 90 percent of HIV infections, sexually transmitted.
So far about 27,000 AIDS deaths in Germany
Total currently live in Germany more than 60,000 people infected with HIV. Since the beginning of the first documented case in Germany in 1982, the number of AIDS sufferers is estimated at about 86,000, about 27,000 of them died.
Worldwide estimated UNAIDS - the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS - the number of deceased AIDS, 2007 with approximately two million adults and children. With the virus were infected an estimated 33 million to 2.7 million new infections in 2007.
Worst affected by the epidemic is still Africa: 1.5 million, or 75 percent of the world's estimated 2,007 deaths attributable solely to the African countries south of the Sahara. 22 million or 67 percent of the world's HIV-infected adults and children living there.
"Without treatment generic drugs from India simply too expensive"
The children emergency warned that new patents could be from next year the production of affordable AIDS medicines for sick children at risk. With cheap manufactured products from imitators India would still large parts of Africa supplies. This could dramatically change when three large pharmaceutical companies in 2009 their patent rights provision.
"The right to life for children but in each case over the patent of the companies are facing," said Frank Mischo, HIV / AIDS expert at the Children relief.
The average age of death from AIDS of 2007 was 50.0 years, while women on average 49.4 years and men 50.1 years old were. In 1997, patients with an average age of 42 died. Communication is the occasion of World AIDS Day on 1 December.
In 2007, yet 461 people died as a result of the immune deficiency disease, 43 fewer than the year before. Were particularly affected people 25 to 65 years: From AIDS to deceased people were 85.7 percent in this age, where the Group of 40 - to less than 45-year-olds the largest proportion (21 percent). 81 percent of the dead were male.
Nationwide, 1,822 were AIDS patients fell ill in the hospital treated and released. Compared with the year 2000, the figure dropped to 4,090 persons - a decrease of almost 70 percent.
However in 2007 increased the number of new cases in comparison with the previous year to 100 cases to approximately 2,800, as the Federal relying on data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) wrote. In the current year there were an estimated 3,000 have been even, representing a further increase would mean. According to experts, around 90 percent of HIV infections, sexually transmitted.
So far about 27,000 AIDS deaths in Germany
Total currently live in Germany more than 60,000 people infected with HIV. Since the beginning of the first documented case in Germany in 1982, the number of AIDS sufferers is estimated at about 86,000, about 27,000 of them died.
Worldwide estimated UNAIDS - the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS - the number of deceased AIDS, 2007 with approximately two million adults and children. With the virus were infected an estimated 33 million to 2.7 million new infections in 2007.
Worst affected by the epidemic is still Africa: 1.5 million, or 75 percent of the world's estimated 2,007 deaths attributable solely to the African countries south of the Sahara. 22 million or 67 percent of the world's HIV-infected adults and children living there.
"Without treatment generic drugs from India simply too expensive"
The children emergency warned that new patents could be from next year the production of affordable AIDS medicines for sick children at risk. With cheap manufactured products from imitators India would still large parts of Africa supplies. This could dramatically change when three large pharmaceutical companies in 2009 their patent rights provision.
"The right to life for children but in each case over the patent of the companies are facing," said Frank Mischo, HIV / AIDS expert at the Children relief.
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