Report on the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic

of HIV infe
with HIV/AIDS as of end 1999

World Health Organization

HIVpreaec aduls 1-49(%, end1999
su-aaa Afic

Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Cote d'lvoire
Dem. Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho

2.78
2.45
35.80
6.44
11.32
7.73
13.84
2.69
0.12*
6.43
10.76
5.07
11.75
0.51
2.87*
10.63
4.16
1.95
3.60
1.54
2.50
13.95
23.57

Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Reunion
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Swaziland
Togo
Uganda
United Rep. of Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe

2.80
0.15
15.96
2.03
0.52
0.08*
13.22
19.54
1.35
5.06
11.21
1.77
2.99
19.94
25.25
5.98
8.30
8.09
19.95
25.06

East Asia & Pacific

China
Hong Kong S.A.R.
Dem. Peo. Rep. of Korea
Fiji

0.07
0.06
<0.01*
0.07

Japan
Mongolia
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Korea

0.02
<0.01
0.22
0.01

Australia & New Zealand

Australia

New Zealand

Sot & ot-atAi

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Lao People's Dem. Rep.
Malaysia

<0.01*
0.02
<0.01
0.2*
4.04
0.70
0.05
<0.01 *
0.05
0.42

Maldives
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Viet Nam

0.05*
1.99
0.29
0.10
0.07
0.19
0.07
2.15
0.24

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Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Georgia
Hungary
Kazakstan
Kyrgyzstan

0.01
<0.01
0.28
0.04*
0.01*
0.02*
0.04
0.04
<0.01
0.05
0.04
<0.01

Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Republic of Moldova
Romania
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

0.11
0.02
0.07
0.20
0.02
0.18
<0.01
<0.01
0.01
0.96
<0.01

Wester Europ

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Albania
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg

<0.01
0.23
0.15
0.17
0.05
0.44
0.10
0.16
0.14
0.10
0.35
0.16

Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
TFYR Macedonia
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia

0.12
0.19
0.07
0.74
0.02
0.58
0.08
0.46
<0.01
0.11
0.10*

Not Afia&MideEs

Algeria
Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

0.07*
0.15*
0.10
0.02*
<0.01 *
0.08
0.02*
0.12*
0.09*
0.05*

Morocco
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

0.03*
0.11 *
0.09*
0.01*
0.99*
0.01*
0.04*
0.01*
0.18*
0.01*

North America

Canada

0.30

United States of America

Caibea

Bahamas
Barbados
Cuba
Dominican Republic

4.13
1.17
0.03
2.80

Haiti
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago

Latin America

Argentina
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala

0.69
2.01
0.10
0.57
0.19
0.31
0.54
0.29
0.60
1.38

Guyana
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

3.01
1.92
0.29
0.20
1.54
0.11
0.35
1.26
0.33
0.49

To calculate the adult HIV prevalence rates given above, the estimated number of adults aged 15-49 living at
end 1999 with HIV infection (whether or not they had developed symptoms of AIDS) was divided by the country's 1999 adult population (15-49). For countries marked with an asterisk, insufficient data were available to
calculate an estimated HIV prevalence rate for end 1999. In these cases the figure used is the 1994 prevalence
rate for the country concerned published by WHO (WER 1995;70:353-360).
The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this map, including tables and colouring of
country areas, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNAIDS or WHO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its
frontiers or boundaries.
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