AIDS and Population Demographic



AIDS and Population Demographic

Introduction

The paper examines the AIDS population in United States keeping in view the change sin demographics and the impact on healthcare. The aim is to highlight what changes have the demographic shift brought to the disease prevention and healthcare challenges.

Population Targeted

According to the CDC estimates, there are about 1.2 million citizens in U.S.A who are suffering from AIDS. About five (20%) of the people have an awareness of the infection. Although people increasingly in the U.S. suffered from HIV infection, the yearly recent HIV infections remained stable. About 50,000 of the population are infected with HIV every year. In the year2009, the total of 42,011 populations was diagnosed with HIV in 40 states. Both women and men, young or old are the most reported having been tested for HIV in the last 12 months, and claim to know the results (National AIDS policy White House, 2010).

Population Demographic

In Latin America, according to demographic surveys, the percentage of women and men aged 15 to 49 years of age responded that HIV testing conducted in the last twelve months and know their HIV status remains low, with values between 4% and 30%. The percentage is higher in women (range 1% to 66%) that in men (range 1% to 39%).

The coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART) based on WHO guidelines of 2010 shows a great variability in Latin America. If taken as the denominator, the estimated numbers of people with advanced HIV infection who need ART according to WHO guidelines, 2010, are 51% (45-61%), higher than average coverage of all country regions of low and middle income, which was estimated in 2009 at 36%. If one considers people with advanced HIV infection receiving ART needed from the information reported by health services, the percentage is greater than 70% in half of the countries of Latin America (9 of 17 countries) (Bowman, 2009).

Source: (Health and Human Services Department, 2011, www.cdc.gov)

The Impact of Demographic on the Market of Health Care

The U.S. Latino population has become one of the three main risk groups with gay and African-exposed to HIV, the virus that causes the disease AIDS. The new cases are identified; Hispanics bear 20% of infections that is an excessive proportion that has caught the attention of the CDC of the North American country. According to CDC estimates, at certain time in their lives, one in 36 Latino men receives a diagnosis of HIV, similar to one in 106 Hispanic women. Indeed, a significant aspect is that the proportion of AIDS among men is about three times that of white men according to cited public institution (Bowman, 2009).

Another fact that has set off alarm and it is directed against the campaign this year is that more than half of U.S. Hispanics has not been done before AIDS testing, although health authorities of the country recommend that all citizens young and old are supposed to undergo these tests preventively (Health and Human Services Department, 2011).

Demographic Changes Affecting Health Care

In the early years ...