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British Columbia

Source: HIV/AIDS Update: Annual 2004 British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Society, STD/AIDS Control
Data represents a cumulative total from 1985 – December 31, 2004

Total Reactive (positive) HIV tests: 11,923
Men: 9,920
Women: 1,627
Gender not reported: 375

In 2004, 445 British Columbians tested positive for HIV.

New infections are also categorized by an indentified risk or activity. These categories are:

• MSM (men who have sex with men, including men who self-identify as bi-sexual)
• WSW (women who have sex with women)
• IDU (injection drug user)
• HET (heterosexual contact)
• Blood/BP Recipient (blood/blood product recipient)
• Occupational EXP (occupational exposure)
• Perinatal (mother to child under the age of 18 months)
• Other (includes endemic area immigrants, needle puncture, blood contact from biting or a fight etc, semen recipients, organ donors, non-injection drug use, and unspecified parental exposure)
• Unknown (risk unknown)

Total AIDS Diagnoses: 3,896
* Data represents a cumulative total from 1985 – December 31, 2004
Men: 3,608
Women: 286

Total HIV/AIDS related deaths: 2,831
* Data represents a cumulative total from 1989 – 2004
Men: 2,587
Women: 244

Canada

Source: HIV and AIDS in Canada: Surveillance Report to June 30, 2006: November 2006
Division of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology and Surveillance, Bureau of HIV/AIDS, STD & TB, Public Health Agency of Canada
Data represents a cumulative total from November 1, 1985 – June 30, 2006

Total Reactive (positive) HIV tests: 61,423
Men: 49,025
Women: 9,659
Gender Not Reported: 2,739
Adults: 57,838
Age Not Reported: 3,585
Children (under the age of 15): 738

In 2006, 1,221 Canadians tested positive for HIV.

New infections are also categorized by an indentified risk or activity. These categories are:

• MSM (men who have sex with men, including men who self-identify as bi-sexual)
• IDU (injection drug user)
• Blood/BP Recipient (blood/blood product recipient)
• Heterosexual Contact
• Occupational EXP (occupational exposure)
• Other (when mode of HIV transmission is known but does not fit into one of the above categories ex. semen recipients from an HIV positive donor)
• NIR (no identified risk)
• Exposure Category Not Reported (in certain provinces it is not possible to report information regarding exposure category)

Total AIDS Diagnoses: 20,493
Men: 18,588
Women: 1,932
Adults: 20,257
Children (under the age of 15): 236
Total HIV/AIDS related deaths: 13,326

Worldwide

Source: AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006
UNAIDS/World Health Organization

Estimated total number of people living with HIV at the end of 2006: 39.5 million

Approximately 4.3 million people became infected with HIV in 2006. This is the equivalent of 11,780 new infections each day. Approximately 530,000 of these newly infected individuals were children.

In the same year, approximately 3 million people died of AIDS-related causes. 62.5% of the global total of HIV positive people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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