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The human immunodeficiency virus HIV ; responsible for AIDS has caused a much more serious world-wide epidemic than it was expected to do ten years ago. UNAIDS and WHO estimated that at the end of the year 2000, there were 36.1 million people in the world living with HIV or AIDS. This figure is 50% higher than that predicted in 1991. Contamination still occurs mainly via sexual intercourse, and "only" 5% of all the contamination is due to the use of intravenous injections. However, when the HIV virus mainly affects a small sector of the population, such as the drug injecters, the number of people exposed will remain strictly limited to this sector for only a short time, since this group will eventually pass the virus on to the population at large via the sexual pathway. In addition, to give an idea of the extent and the gravity of the situation, it should be pointed out that this figure of 5% does not reflect the harsh reality of the epidemiological situation in regions where the epidemic is propagating at a devastatingly fast rate. In 2000, a larger number of new HIV infections was recorded in the Russian Federation than during all the previous years combined. At a conservative estimate, the number of adults and children living with the HIV virus or AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia amounts to 700, 000, as compared with 420, 000 just one year ago. The majority of the 250, 000 adults infected during the year 2000 were males. And most of them were injectable drug users IDUs ; . That same year, some new epidemics broke out on the same fringes of the population in Ouzbekistan and Estonia. The latter country again reported many more cases in 2000 than during all the previous years. In Southern and South-East Asia, 700, 000 adults, 450, 000 of whom are males, have been infected. These estimates confirm what is already known about high risk behaviour in this region, where the majority of the injectable drug consumers are males, and males have also contributed to the first wave of sexual transmission of the HIV virus, mainly via the sex trade and partly via intercourse between men. It has been estimated that in 2000, as many as 5.8 million adults and children were living with the HIV virus in this part of the world. In Latin America, where approximately 1.4 million adults and children are reported to be living with the HIV virus and AIDS, contamination occurs largely via drug injection practices. These figures suffice to show how desperately urgent it has become to set up specific information and Harm reduction programmes, the only tools which have significantly slowed down the epidemic so far. WHO and UNAIDS have noted, however, that even in thos countries where programmes of this kind have been implemented, "preventive efforts seem to be on the decrease": in 2000, as many as 30, 000 adults and children in Western Europe and 45, 000 in North America contracted the AIDS virus. The authors of the same report 1 ; have stated that it is the consumers of injectable drugs and their families who are now bearing the brunt of this relaxation of preventive efforts. These people are thought to account for most of the new cases of infection occurring in many of the well-to-do countries. To quote the latter authors, "These infections could have been avoided.
Abbreviations: ADL, activities of daily living24; CPS, Cognitive Performance Scale25; DRS, Depression Rating Scale26; IADL, instrumental activities of daily living.22 * Patients' poor economic situation, as defined in the "Methods" section. Polymorbidity defined as presence of 4 or more Minimum Data Set for Home Care comorbidities.22 The lack of comprehensive medication review by the physician in the prior 180 days. Subjective nonadherence adherence 80% of the treatment time in prior 7 days.
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