The data were contained in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, which revealed that HIV played a significant factor in deaths to women during childbirth. Using South African data, about 50,000 maternal deaths were associated with HIV in 2008.
‘Aids isolation must end … half of all maternal deaths in Botswana and South Africa are due to HIV,’ said Sidibe.
The report said the face of the Aids epidemic was changing and that prevention efforts were not keeping pace with the shift. Daniel Halperin, an Aids expert at Harvard University, said it was good news the rate of new infections was dropping and that access to Aids drugs was helping to cut the death rate.
Earlier this year, the UN announced there are now 4million people on lifesaving Aids drugs worldwide, a 10-fold increase in five years. HIV transmission in Asia in the past was mainly through prostitution and injecting drug use, but now, it is increasingly affecting heterosexual couples.
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