Current pandemics

HIV/AIDSedit

Although the WHO uses the term "global epidemic" to describe HIV ("WHO HIV/AIDS Data and Statistics". Retrieved 12 April 2020.), as HIV is no longer an uncontrollable outbreak outside of Africa, some authors use the term "pandemic". HIV originated in Africa, and spread to the United States via Haiti between 1966 and 1972. AIDS is currently a pandemic in Africa, with infection rates as high as 25% in southern and eastern Africa. In 2006, the HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women in South Africa was 29%. Effective education about safer sexual practices and bloodborne infection precautions training have helped to slow down infection rates in several African countries sponsoring national education programs.citation needed

In 2017, approximately 1 million people in the United States had HIV; 14% did not realize that they were infected.

COVID-19edit

A new strain of coronavirus was first identified in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in late December 2019. It has caused a cluster of cases of an acute respiratory disease, which is referred to as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). According to media reports, more than 200 countries and territories have been affected by COVID-19, with major outbreaks occurring in Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Western Europe and the United States. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization characterized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic. As of 16 November 2020update, the number of people infected with COVID-19 has reached 54,978,057 worldwide, of whom 38,243,617 have recovered. The death toll is 1,326,860. It is believed that these figures are understated as testing did not commence in the initial stages of the outbreak and many people infected by the virus have no or only mild symptoms and may not have been tested. Similarly, the number of recoveries may also be understated as tests are required before cases are officially recognised as recovered, and fatalities are sometimes attributed to other conditions. This was especially the case in large urban areas where a non-trivial number of patients died while in their private residences. It was later discovered that asymptomatic hypoxia due to COVID-19 pulmonary disease may be responsible for many such cases.

Major outbreaks in countriesedit

Country name	Total cases	Total deaths	Total recovered	Active cases	Deaths % (of total cases)	Recovered % (of total cases)	Main article	Ref.
USA	7,679,000+	215,000+	4,895,078	2,569,534	3.56	47.39	COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
India	6,685,640+	103,600	5,662,490	918,992	1.56	82.96	COVID-19 pandemic in India
Brazil	4,940,499	146,773	4,295,302	498,424	3.71	68.65	COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Russia	1,225,889	21,475	982,324	222,090	1.62	72.99	COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Colombia	862,158	26,844	766,300	69,014	2.59	91.93	COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
Spain	852,838	32,225	N/A	N/A	9.03	N/A	COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
Peru	829,999	32,834	712,888	69014	4.76	68.82	COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
Mexico	761,665	79,088	550,053	132,524	11.37	63.88	COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
South Africa	682,215	17,016	615,684	49,515	1.50	58.02	COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Chile	471,746	13,037	443,453	15,256	2.76	N/A	COVID-19 pandemic in Chile