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Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide human population growth (1.1% annual), [2] and the cumulative number of people with HIV is growing at roughly three times faster (3.22%). The costs of treatment is significantly increasing burden on healthcare systems when ...
Jul. 30—SOUTHERN INDIANA — A local doctor who has worked on the frontlines of a devastating opioid epidemic and HIV outbreak in Scott County wants to bring awareness of the disparities ...
The outbreak required emergency action by state officials. [6] When the outbreak was first detected there were 30 HIV cases in a town that had, up until this point, only had 3 cases over several decades. [7] After 29 days, by the time Governor Mike Pence determined a course of action, the number of HIV cases had skyrocketed to 79. In response ...
In late 2014 and early 2015, 17 HIV infections arising from Scott County initiated an Indiana Department of Health investigation that would result in the state declaring a public health emergency. The outbreak was fueled in part to intravenous drug use resulting from the opioid epidemic compounded by poor access to HIV testing. [18]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence authorized a short-term needle-exchange program and other steps Thursday to help contain the spread of HIV in a county tied to 79 new infections since ...
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Beginning in December 2014, there was an HIV outbreak in Southern Indiana. [124] In 2011, Planned Parenthood (PP) operated five rural clinics in Indiana. They tested for HIV and offered prevention, intervention and counseling to improve public health outcomes. The PP clinic in Scott County performed no abortions. [125]
HIV rates have been decreasing in the region: From 2010 to 2020, new infections in eastern and southern Africa fell by 38%. [8] Still, South Africa has the largest population of people with HIV of any country in the world, at 8.45 million, [11] 13.9% [12] of the population as of 2022.