In the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, roughly half of people diagnosed with HIV in the United States died of an AIDS-related condition within two years.1 With the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy in 1996, the HIV death rate plummeted.2 Today, people ...
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An estimated 36 million to 46 million people are living with AIDS, two-thirds of them in Africa, but only 440,000 people in developing countries were receiving treatment by the end of 2003, the UN health agency said in its annual report. "Without treatment, all of them will die a premat...
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a devastating disease, caused by infection of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). There were around39 million people infected with HIV in 2022 .But not everyone who is infected with HIV gets AIDS. In fact, with proper treatment, most people who are ...
Cardiovascular diseases, or diseases of the heart and blood vessels, are the leading cause of death. However, their prominence is not reflected inour perceptionsof death nor in the media. While the death toll for HIV/AIDS peaked in 2004, it still affects many people today. The disease causes...
June marked the 20th anniversary of the first clinical diagnosis of Aids, which at the dawn of the 21st century had emerged not only as the most devastating epidemic the world has ever known, but also as the greatest development challenge to ever confront the world.Janneh, Abdoulie...
2. Learning from Smallpox (天花): How to Eradicate(根除) a Disease For most of human history, medical workers sought to treat diseases or cure them. The rise of vaccination(疫苗的接种) in the 19th century enhanced the potential to prevent people from contracting(感染) illnesses in the first...
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Why, then, is aids still the top cause of death for African women and number three for women aged 15-49 worldwide? The answer is that, although 30m people with HIV are taking the pills, 9m are not. Those who do not know they have the virus can easily pass it on: 1.3m people we...
death toll worldwide. And even these commonplace viral infections can be deadly to a person who already has a weakened immune system – people withAIDS,cancerpatients taking chemotherapy, elderly people or newborns. We have to take care not to spread viruses to these especially susceptible people...