← on nowLGR-057 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many people die of infections passed by sex each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
died of infections passed by sex
1.1 million
a year
0.035
a second
3,012
a day
newly infected with hiv
1.3 million
a year
0.041
a second
3,559
a day
method UNAIDS (HIV deaths ~630k), WHO/IARC (cervical cancer ~350k, nearly all HPV), WHO (syphilis, hepatitis B share).
- hiv came from chimpanzees, by bushmeat, around 1920. the animal ledger again.source: Worobey et al. 2008; Sharp & Hahn 2011
- the hpv vaccine is ending cervical cancer where it is used: in vaccinated scottish women, no cases at all. because we vaccinated.source: Palmer et al. 2024, JNCI; WHO cervical cancer elimination initiative
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=humans" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · humans"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- UNAIDS (HIV deaths ~630k), WHO/IARC (cervical cancer ~350k, nearly all HPV), WHO (syphilis, hepatitis B share).
- range
- 1.0–1.3 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- attribution of hepatitis B deaths to sexual transmission is partial; the site counts a share.
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