LETS COMBAT THIS!

1. Millennium Development Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and
Other Diseases
Karen Bourke, Aoife Byrne and Roisín Doyle

3. What Has Been Done to Combat HIV?
• The number of new HIV
infections continues to decline.
The number of infections among
children fell from 410,000 to
370,000.
• Access to antiretroviral therapy
rose by 42% in 2007. By the end
of 2007, the number of people
receiving AIDS treatment in
developing countries reached
3million. But, an estimated 9.7
million people are in need of this
treatment.
• From 2005 to 2007, the
percentage of HIV-positive
pregnant women receiving
antiretroviral drugs that prevent
transmission from the mother to
the child (PMTCT) rose from 14%
to 33%
• In countries where information is
available, only 40% of men and
36% of women aged 15 to 24
understand how HIV is transmitted
and how to prevent infection,
which is well below the 95% MDG
target.
• The number of people who die
from AIDS has started to decline,
from 2.2 million in 2005 to 2
million in 2007.

4. What are the ‘Other Diseases’ and
What is Being Done to Combat Them?
• Polio is one of the ‘other
diseases’. The Global Polio
Eradication Initiative is the
largest international public
health effort in history. And
it’s worked. The number of
countries where polio is
epidemic has been reduced to
four as of 2007.
• Neglected tropical diseases
affect 1 billion people a year
in the poorest parts of the
world. The drugs that can help
the sufferers of these diseases
remain too expensive for the
residents of these developing
countries. The MDG will not
be reached here.

5. • www.un.org
• www.malariaconsortium.org
• www.who.int
• www.oxfam.org.uk
• www.netsforlifeafrica.org
• www.againstmalaria.com

6. AIDS
WHAT IS IT?
•It is a disease that can be contracted through sexual intercourse and bodily fluids.
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, this is what it AIDS stands for.
•After contracting AIDS it is typically followed by a prolonged period without symptoms. As
the illness progresses, it interferes more and more with the immune system, making the
person much more likely to get infections, including opportunistic infections and tumors that
do not usually affect people who have working immune systems.
•AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981
and its cause was identified in the early part of the decade. Since its discovery, AIDS has
caused nearly 30 million deaths as of 2009.
•Minorities, primarily African Americans and Hispanics, now account for some 54% of the
more than 5,000,000 cases of AIDS reported since the epidemic began in 1981.
•African American and Hispanic women together account for more than 77% of AIDS cases
reported among women, yet represent less than one-fourth of the total female population in the
U.S
• Worldwide, 35 million people have been infected and 5 million have developed AIDS.
• AIDS is the leading cause of death for all African Americans between the ages of 25 to 44.

7. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEicDJ_aiME
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/hiv/en/