Demographic Impacts of HIV/AIDS Infection in Cameroon 2010 to 2025

HIV/AIDS has come to have great important and wholly negative impacts on the population dynamics of most of sub Saharan Africa including Cameroon since the beginning of the 1980s. Any analysis of both short and medium term demographic trends of Cameroon without due consideration of the HIV/AIDS infection factor will be unrealistic. Even though, the estimated HIV/AIDS infection rate of 11.0% was found to be an exaggeration by findings of the 2004 and 2008 Cameroon Demographic and Health Surveys which put the infection rate at 5.5%, the damage of HIV/AIDS infection on life expectancy, population growth rate and numbers, death rates, median age as well as population structure will remain important at least for the short or medium terms. The damaging effects of HIV/AIDS on the demographics of Cameroon is now recognized by many but little efforts have been made to quantify these effects.This paper seeks to measure these impacts using the 2010 population figures of Cameroon estimated from the 2005 population count and information on HIV/AIDS derived from Demographic and Health Surveys
Key words: HIV/AIDS, demographic impacts, life expectancy, population size, population structure