AIDS pandemic still growing.
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â¢ In 1981, there were 422 AIDS cases and 159 deaths in the United States. In 2001, there were 506,154 cases and 459,518 deaths. Today, 850,000 to 950,000 Americans are living with HIV.
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In 1988, when World AIDS Day began, 10 million people worldwide were living with AIDS. Today, nearly 40 million men, women and children are HIV positive.
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By the time World Aids day has run its course an estimated 14,000 more people in the world will have become infected with HIV. Nearly 40 million people globally are living with the Aids virus
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An information mobile text service is being launched in Kenya to help tackle the HIV/Aids pandemic.
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The number of sexually transmitted infections continues to rise, particularly among young adults, figures show.
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International AIDS specialists and Indian health officials revealed new data showing that India has 2.5 million people infected with HIV, about half the previous estimate by world health officials. But the Indian government said it still plans to move aggressively to fight the disease, pledging $1.95 billion for a new round of its AIDS control program ...
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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The graphic outlines the impact of AIDs in Africa, where more than two-thirds of the people living with HIV worldwide live. (AP Graphic).
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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World AIDS Day today aims to celebrate progress made against the global epidemic that has killed 30 million in two decades and left 40 million more infected.
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Aids is spreading in quite different ways in different parts of the world - making it harder to treat and prevent infection - according to the annual UN report on the disease published yesterday.
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Women using a microbicide to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus become infected more often than those in a control group. In Sex Drive Daily.
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A worldwide "pandemic" of violence against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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More than 3 million people will die from AIDS this year, and nearly 40 million now have the virus that causes the disease. Those are the highest tolls in the 23-year history of this plague.
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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HIV is the fastest growing serious health condition in England and Wales, according to a United Nations report into the Aids epidemic.