Characteristics of HIV infection/AIDS in Korea.

摘要: Since its initial appearance in 1985, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and late-stage manifestation, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have affected a growing number of persons across Korea around globe1). Worldwide, by end year 2000, 36.1 million are living with AIDS, an estimated 21.8 had died since beginning epidemic. As December more than 1,280 HIV infections 286 deaths from AIDS been reported to Korean National Institute Health (Korean Ministry Welfare, 2000). The cases includes only cases, but factual is presumed be at least three five times larger. epidemic Asian countries, particularly India Thailand, has lagged temporally behind that Africa; however, new this region accelerating rapidly, magnitude projected exceed sub-Saharan Africa early part twenty-first century2). In Korea, incidence persistently increasing each (Figure 1). Figure 1 Cumulative prevalence 1985 2000. year. 2000)