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Appendix Two
The Bigger Picture

Adolescent Reproductive Health

With an estimated 1 billion adolescents alive today,
the world is experiencing the largest adolescent population in history.

Adolescence is a time of tremendous opportunity and change.
It also is a time of heightened vulnerabilities.

Programs that can provide information, ensure access to services,
and develop life skills are crucial to the future of this population.

http://www.rho.org/html/adolescent.htm#

UNAIDS: Industrialized countries

The notion that the epidemic is a thing of the past in high-income industrialized countries is unfounded.

But that achievement is shadowed by the fact that
prevention efforts are stalling in most industrialized countries.

Reported are sharp increases in sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with
men in Amsterdam — an indication that unsafe sex threatens to become the norm again.

There are signs that unsafe sex between men might be a growing factor in Eastern Europe’s epidemic.

http://www.unaids.org/fact_sheets/ungass/html/FSoverview_en.htm

Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread,
its direct economic impact is becoming more and more evident worldwide.

Apart from the human cost, HIV/AIDS is increasingly affecting the people, consumers as well as
workers, on which businesses depend.

HIV/AIDs is wiping out Fifty years of Investment in Development

AIDS is on track to single-handedley wipe out 50 years of development gains in the most affected countries said Mr. Fahlen UNAIDS Director of Social Mobilisation and Stratgey information.

AIDS is currently one of the greatest threats to global development and stability.

Development gains will only become a reality if greater investment is made in HIV/AIDS prevention.

Countries that fail to bring the epidemic under control risk becoming locked in a vicious circle
- as worsening socioeconomic conditions
render people, business and communities even more vulnerable
to the epidemic and derail efforts to improve treatment, care and support.

The adverse impact on tax revenue is already affecting national budgets. In Botswana, for example, it is estimated that Government will lose 20% of public revenue by 2010 due to the economic impact of HIV/AIDS.

In the Caribbean, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are expected to face
a 5% loss in GDP by 2005 as a result of AIDS.

(UNAIDS report at Monterrey Conference, Mexico, 19/3/2002)