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HIV and AIDSData Hub for Asia-Pacific

Review in slidesAfghanistan


ContentBasic socio-demographic indicators

HIV prevalence and epidemiological status (2005-2008)

Risk behaviors (2007-2008)

Vulnerability and HIV knowledge (2005-2008)

Economics of AIDS (2006-2008)

National Response (1997-2007)

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Basic socio-demographic indicators, 2007-2008

Total population (in thousands) 29,117 (2010)2

Annual population growth rate 3.2% (2010-2015)2

Population aged 15-49 (thousands) 13,333 (2008)6

Percentage of population in urban areas 23% (2010)1

Crude birth rate (births per 1,000 population) 46.5 (2008)3

Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 257 (2008)4

Human development index (HDI) - Rank/Value 155/0.349 (2010)5

Life expectancy at birth (years) 44.6 (2010)5

Adult literacy rate N/A

Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education(%)

57 (2008)3

GDP per capita (PPP, $US) 1,321 (2009)3

Per capita total health expenditure (Int.$) 83 (2007)4

Source: 1. UNFPA The State of World Population 2010 2. UN Statistics Division 2010: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/population.htm 3. World Bank World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance ;http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2 4. WHO World Health Statistics 2010 5. UNDP Human Development Report 2010 6. UN Population Division - Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision, Population Database


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Vulnerability and HIV knowledge


% who could correctly identify HIV prevention methods for sexual transmission and reject major misconceptions about HIV

transmission, 2009

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Source: Afghanistan_IBBS-2009_Cited in Afghanistan UNGASS Country Progress Report, 2010


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% of IDUs who have ever heard of HIV and AIDS, Kabul, 2005-2006

Source: Todd and et.al, Association between expatriation and HIV awareness and knowledge among injecting drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan: Conflict and Health, 2007

N= 464

Yes46%No

54%


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% of IDUs with knowledge of HIV prevention through use of condom in Kabul, 2005-2006

Yes60%

No40%


A total sample of 464

IDUs was taken in Kabul.

86% had lived or worked

outside country in

the past 10 years.


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% of IDUs with knowledge of specific HIV transmission ways, Kabul, 2005-2006

85

50

7077.2

58.9

78.6

0

20

40

60

80

100

Used needles Donated blood Sexually

Ways of HIV transmission

(%)Live in Afghanistan Lived outside Afghanistan


Note: A total sample of 464 IDUs was taken in Kabul.


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% of IDUs with knowledge of HIV transmission in Kabul, 2005-2006


Note: A total sample of 464 IDUs was taken in Kabul.

47.441.2

77.871.9

0

50

100

Through sharingneedles

Throughdonated blood

Through sexualintercourse

Through usedneedles

%


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Trend of cultivation of opium poppy and production in Afghanistan, 1990-2006

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2,000

3,000

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5,000

6,000

7,000

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Production Oppium poppy cultivation

Source: UNODC. 2007 World Drug Report, 2007

In Afghanistan, increasing production of opium has

resulted in the availability of a greater quantity of both

opium and heroin in the local market. It is estimated that

as many as 25,000 drug-dependents in Afghanistan are

injecting drugs.


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% of FSWs with HIV and AIDS related knowledge, 2007-2008

Source: Afghanistan_The World Bank, Mapping and Situation Assessment of Key Populations at High Risk of HIV in Three Cities of Afghanistan, April 2008

61

41

41

66

37

54

54

36

72

32

75

80

52

59

47

0 50 100

Ever heard of HIV/AIDS

Know what is a condom

Know how HIV spreads

Know that they can acquire HIV through sex

Know that condoms can prevent HIV

%

Jalalabad

Mazar-i-Sharif

Total


% of MSMs with correct knowledge of HIV, Kabul & Mazar-i-Sharif, 2009

12Source: Khan S., et al. ,Rapid assessment of male vulnerabilities to HIV and sexual exploitation in Afghanistan, March 2009

MSM (N=100)

50 from Kabul

50 from Mazar-i-Sharif


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