In the 9 years between 2011-2019 in Turkey, 703 people died from HIV

In the 9 years between 2011 and 2019 in Turkey, 703 people died from HIV. 577 of them are male; 126 of them are women.

In the 7 years between 2011 and 2017 in the European Union, 24,703 people died from this disease. Spain and Italy are the countries with the highest number of deaths from this disease in Europe. The World Health Organization declared December 1 as World AIDS Day in 1988 to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.

WHAT IS HIV/AIDS?

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which first appeared in the 1980s, directly damages the immune system. HIV reduces body resistance, causing people to get sick easily. Those who carry this virus are called "HIV positive".

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is defined as the disease state that occurs after the HIV virus weakens the immune system. AIDS is called the last stage of HIV.

According to the 2021 report of the United Nations (UN) Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 79.3 million people have been infected with HIV since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the world. 36.3 million people died due to AIDS-related diseases.

The number of HIV-positive people worldwide was 37.7 million in 2020. 1.7 million of them are children in the 0-14 age group.