Hiv Statistics In Malaysia 2020

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Hiv statistics in malaysia 2020. In 2018 an estimated 37 9 million people were living with hiv including 1 7 million children with a global hiv prevalence of 0 8 among adults around 21 of these same people do not know that they have the virus 1 since the start of the epidemic an estimated 74 9 million people have become infected with hiv. Welcome to the fast link of the department of statistics malaysia official portal selamat datang ke pautan pintas portal rasmi jabatan perangkaan malaysia. The fast track infographic is based on last year hiv estimates. Country is still in progress of developing national fast track target.

Roughly 8 1 million people did not know they were infected with hiv in 2018 according to hiv aids statistics. Snapshot of hiv aids in malaysia 2017 march 6 2019. New hiv infections or hiv incidence refers to the estimated number of people who newly acquired the hiv virus during given period such as a year which is different from the number of people diagnosed with hiv during a year. Besides demographic and epidemiological hiv data these profiles also include information on country s hiv policies and plans.

Despite being aware of their medical condition around 38 of people decide not to seek medical attention for their hiv infection. Amfar although the number of hiv incidence reduced from 280 000 ten years ago it is still far from the global target of reducing new hiv diagnoses among children to fewer than 40 000. The who country profiles provide an overview of latest available data on the hiv epidemic in low and middle income countries as of 2018. As of 2016 99 338 hiv positive men and 12 578 hiv positive women in malaysia.

New hiv infections an estimated 1 7 million individuals worldwide acquired hiv in 2019 marking a 23 decline in new hiv infections since 2010. Call for expression of interest eoi from individual consultant s to develop hiv position paper sexual transmission among key populations april 12 2019. The first hiv aids case in malaysia made it debut in 1986 and since has become one of the country s most serious health and development challenges. Malaysia is ranked seventh highest in adult prevalence of hiv aids in asia after thailand papua new guinea burma cambodia vietnam and indonesia with a 0 45.

Hiv continues to be a major global public health issue. 2018 global hiv statistics. According to hiv statistics worldwide the number of children newly infected with hiv is 160 000. Elimination of mother to child transmission of hiv and syphilis.