HIV/AIDS Pandemic In Zambia

Statistics

AIDS IN ZAMBIA

1. Daily there are 14,400 people in Africa infected with HIV/AIDS.

2. Africa has been hit the hardest with HIV/AIDS. About 70 percent of the world’s 34 million HIV-positive people live south of the Sahara desert and about 95% of the worlds AIDS orphans are African. (The impending catastrophe, Johannesburg: Abt Associates South Africa Inc, 2000)

3. 23,800,000 HIV infected people in sub-Saharan Africa. (ibid)

4. Roughly 20 percent of Zambian adults are infected with HIV. 1 in 5 infected. (UNAIDS/WHO fact sheet on Zambia, June 1998)

5. Estimated 700 HIV related deaths in Lusaka each week. (BBC, September 15,1999)

6. On the Copperbelt 46% of all pregnant women are HIV positive. (Ibid)

7. According to Zambian Government, one half of the 10 million population will die of HIV/AIDS. (South Africa Sunday Times, August 29,1999)

8. 80,000 of 400,000 babies born each year are HIV positive. (Ibid)

9. Seventy-five percent of employees deaths in the sugar and cement industries in Zambia are due to HIV/AIDS. (Panos Report, 2000 UN theme group on HIV/AIDS.)

10. Every day in Zambia 300-500 people die from HIV. (ZNBC Open Line, January 14, 2001)

11. 33% of all married couples in Zambia are discordant – one is HIV positive the other is not. (Ibid)

12. In 1997 there were 600 teachers who died from HIV. In 2000 there was an estimated 1,300. (EJU Bulletin, Issue 26, Jan-Mar 2001)