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Population Association of America Annual Meeting
15–17 April 2010

Abstract

"Global trends in AIDS mortality"
John Bongaarts, François Pelletier, and Patrick Gerland

This paper reviews the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provides estimates of past trends and future projections of several AIDS mortality indicators. A cumulative total of 24 million people have died from AIDS between 1980 and 2007, and by 2030 this total is projected to reach 75 million. Despite the rapid spread of this new disease during the 1980s and 1990s, the epidemic has reached a major turning point in recent years as the rate of new infections peaked and began a decline. Worldwide, the proportion of all deaths caused by AIDS reached 3.9 percent in 2004. This proportion varies widely from a high of 15 percent in sub-Saharan Africa to around 1 percent in Asia and other regions. In the future, the number of AIDS deaths and the proportion of deaths due to AIDS are projected to remain approximately at their current plateaus.

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