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Chinese doctor taking refuge in Midland to discuss AIDS with Washington officials...Gao, who left China in secret this year and has been living in West Texas, will share her findings Tuesday -- World Aids Day -- on the AIDS epidemic by presenting her book, "China's AIDS Plague: 10,000 Letters," said founder and president of... In this article: Gao Yaojie, AIDS, Washington, China, Unicef, Henan University, World Health Organization, and Hong Kong |
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AP Online | 23 hours ago
America wages new war in Vietnam - on AIDS
...where 340 HIV patients are getting treatment. The U.S. has spent more than $300 million fighting AIDS in Vietnam, and is now providing AIDS drugs to more than two-thirds of the 32,000 Vietnamese receiving treatment. At $85 million this year...
In this article: Vietnam, HIV, AIDS Drugs, U.S., Usaid, and Agent Orange
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Medical News Today | 1 day ago
New Report Shows 97 Medicines And Vaccines Currently In Development For HIV/AIDS
...medicines to treat HIV/AIDS have been approved since scientists first identified the virus that causes AIDS more than 20 years ago. The first HIV/AIDS medicine was approved in 1987, just four years after the virus was identified.
In this article: HIV, Billy Tauzin, Medical advice, World Summit, Pharmaceutical, AIDS Drugs, and Transmission
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Independent.co.uk - World | 2 days ago
Anger as Commonwealth slashes funding for Aids fight
...a meeting had been held by the forum this week. "There is no intention to lower the priority of HIV and Aids in our programme. HIV and Aids remains high on the list of concerns," he said in a statement from Trinidad. Dr Carr, who...
In this article: Commonwealth Foundation, HIV, Commonwealth countries, and UN
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Reuters | 5 days ago
FACTBOX: Africa still worst hit by AIDS
...virus, according to a statement issued by the World Health Organization and the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Here are some facts about AIDS, according to UNAIDS: THE GLOBAL PICTURE: * Global deaths from AIDS reached an...
In this article: HIV, Asia, Africa, David Cutler, Immunodeficiency, Latin America, Europe, World Health Organization, and Sub-Saharan Africa
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Over 33 million worldwide infected with AIDS: report
...virus, according to a report issued on Tuesday in Shanghai by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). That figure is up from 33 million in 2007. However, the report said more people were living...
In this article: HIV, Transmission, Shanghai, World Health Organization, Asia, and Southeast Asia
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a set of symptoms and infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. This transmission can involve anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.
AIDS is now a pandemic. In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and it killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. Over three-quarters of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital. Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified by American and French scientists in the early 1980s.
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