The incidence of AIDS in Nigeria

The proportion of AIDS in Nigeria accounts for 72% of the global deaths, and the local life expectancy is only 47 years, 30 years less than that of most high-income countries. In 2006, there were 2.8 million new HIV-infected people, and 63% of the adult infected people and 80% of the children infected people in the world were concentrated here. The full name of AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is caused by the invasion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus is contagious for life, destroying the human immune system and making it lose its ability to resist various diseases. Since 198 1 found the first case of AIDS, AIDS has spread rapidly around the world. By 2006, the number of HIV-infected people in the world has exceeded 39.5 million, of which12.3 million are children under 5 years old. In that year, 4.3 million new HIV infections and 2.9 million people died of AIDS. There is no effective medicine and treatment for AIDS in the international medical community so far, so AIDS is called "the killer of the century".