Counting the Cost

作     者：Kira McDonald 

作者机构：Frontier Advisory 

出 版 物：《ChinAfrica》 (中国与非洲（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第6卷第12期

页      面：18-19页

学科分类：12[管理学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 071007[理学-遗传学] 090102[农学-作物遗传育种] 0710[理学-生物学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120402[管理学-社会医学与卫生事业管理(可授管理学、医学学位)] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0901[农学-作物学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 10[医学] 

主　　题：HIV Counting the Cost 

摘      要：FOR more than a quarter century, December 1 is observed as World AIDS Day - an international campaign by the World Health Organization （WHO） to raise awareness on the AIDS pandemic that has since the early 1980s accounted for the death of at least 36 million people globally. According to the WHO, approximately 1.6 million people died of AIDS alone in 2012. Africa＇s more than 50 countries accounted for a disproportionate 75 percent of these deaths. They also hold about 65 percent of those living with HIV/AIDS, although home to only 15 percent of the world＇s popu- lation. With the world＇s fifth-highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate, South Africa alone accounted for about 15 percent of deaths that year,