Balint G A
Department of Psychiatry, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary.
East Afr Med J. 1998 Dec;75(12):684-6.
At the end of 1997 about twenty one million persons were living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, representing almost two third of the world's total. Three broadly defined areas, which include countries with severe epidemics and others with epidemics at their intermediate stage, account for almost 90% of all current HIV infections in tropical Africa. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the current data show very high increases in HIV/AIDS incidence as well as serious underreporting of the disease in the last five years. Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly hard hit by the disease because of a combination of poor social and health education and also because of other endemic sexually transmitted diseases which significantly increase the chance of HIV transmission.
1997年底，撒哈拉以南非洲约有2100万人感染了艾滋病毒/艾滋病，几乎占全球总数的三分之二。三个大致界定的地区，包括疫情严重的国家和处于疫情中期阶段的其他国家，占热带非洲目前所有艾滋病毒感染病例的近90%。根据世界卫生组织（世卫组织）的数据，目前的数据显示，在过去五年中，艾滋病毒/艾滋病发病率急剧上升，而且该疾病的漏报情况严重。撒哈拉以南非洲受该疾病影响尤为严重，原因是社会和健康教育水平低下，以及其他地方性传播疾病的存在，这些疾病显著增加了艾滋病毒传播的几率。
