Here’s question two in our lead up to World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
Remember when you answer each day’s HIV/AIDS question correctly, you are eligible to win a free CD — your choice of either Portable Sounds by tobyMac or Beyond Measure by Jeremy Camp. We’ll randomly choose a winner each day from the correct answers.
The answer to yesterday’s question is “true.”
HIV infections are found throughout the world, and developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the devastation caused by HIV and AIDS.
In poverty-stricken countries, many people do not understand the risk of HIV or how to prevent it. Once infected, they do not have the same access to treatment as do those suffering from the disease in the developing world.
Source: The Skeptic’s Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis by Dale Hanson Bourke (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Authentic Books, 2006), p. 9
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The official answer is 72 percent, and our CD winner is Jackie Kludt.
Congratulations Jackie!
76% as reported by the UN Report on AIDS/HIV
I couldn’t find it in Dale’s book, but found this from UNAIDS – WHO:
The estimated number of deaths due to AIDS
in 2007 was 2.1 million [1.9–2.4 million]
worldwide, of which 76% occurred
in sub-Saharan Africa.
three quarters (75%) ;(
68% of deaths occurred in sub Saharan.
76% of worldwide AIDS deaths occurred in sub-saharan Africa.
75% aprox.
2 million Aids deaths in 2007. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for aprox 1.5 million deaths.
(71%). Of the 2.8 million deaths worldwide in 2005 caused by AIDS, 2 million of those occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
72% of worldwide deaths
My answer is: the percentage of worldwide deaths from AIDS that occured in sub-sahara Africa is 11%.