Employees of the foundation Safe4now parts Wednesday condoms to prostitutes in the red light district in Amsterdam.
Employees of the foundation Safe4now parts Wednesday condoms to prostitutes in the red light district in Amsterdam. © ANP
For the first time in years, the number of people dying from AIDS in the Netherlands again. Last year 66 deceased people to the disease, eighteen more than in 2006, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
According to a spokesperson, there is no reason to panic. The number of dead is now so low that a one-time increase or decrease in the number of deaths few conclusions can be drawn.
From 1983 to 2007 in the Netherlands in 4344 deceased people from AIDS, in overwhelming majority men. In 1982, the first cases of the incurable disease in the Netherlands found. One year later was the first death.
In the beginning and middle of the nineties was the year to more than four hundred dead. Thereafter, the number of deaths is much reduced, because AIDS drugs became available. An infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS ultimately, it means no longer an automatic death sentence. A twenty-year HIV-patient in 1996 aged just 56, he or she can now average 69 years.
Employees of the foundation Safe4now parts Wednesday condoms to prostitutes in the red light district in Amsterdam. © ANP
For the first time in years, the number of people dying from AIDS in the Netherlands again. Last year 66 deceased people to the disease, eighteen more than in 2006, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
According to a spokesperson, there is no reason to panic. The number of dead is now so low that a one-time increase or decrease in the number of deaths few conclusions can be drawn.
From 1983 to 2007 in the Netherlands in 4344 deceased people from AIDS, in overwhelming majority men. In 1982, the first cases of the incurable disease in the Netherlands found. One year later was the first death.
In the beginning and middle of the nineties was the year to more than four hundred dead. Thereafter, the number of deaths is much reduced, because AIDS drugs became available. An infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS ultimately, it means no longer an automatic death sentence. A twenty-year HIV-patient in 1996 aged just 56, he or she can now average 69 years.
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