Success of AIDS treatments is pushing up number of HIV cases in U.S.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Marchione, Marilynn
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ATHENS, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Ahead of the World Aids Day on Dec. 1, Greek health authorities on Tuesday said the number of new HIV cases recorded so far in 2016 is the lowest in the past five years. According to statistics released by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEE...
With 227 new HIV cases through July, Duval County has reported 10 percent more infections this year than last year. The county has the sixth most HIV cases in the state. Like the rest of Florida, much of the rise in Duval can be attributed to the new surveillance techniques, said Bob...
Maine HIV cases on the rise ; The number of new HIV diagnoses in the state has already increased by 67 percent over last year.JOSHUA L. WEINSTEIN Staff Writer
BThis is a dangerous world we live in. The number of murders goes up every year, people are dying of cancer, more people contract HIV, more teens are using drugs, etc. You know this because you have heard all the statistics on the news and in the paper. But do you really have an...
The basic reproductive number, often expressed as R0, is defined as the expected number of secondary infectious cases generated by an average infectious case in a population in which everyone is susceptible. From: Tropical Infectious Diseases (Third Edition), 2011 ...
Test providers aren’t barred by law from revealing data on viral load, Professor Gandhi said, though there’s been significant and inexplicable political pressure in the US not to do so. “With all my heart, I can’t understand it,” she said. ...
The number of secondary cases, Ct + 1, is then equivalent, by definition, to the basic reproduction number (R0): [Eq. 4]Ct+1=T×r=R0 This basic reproduction number describes the maximal spreading potential of an infection in a population. Continuing with the example in Fig. 77.3, t...
STIs remain a worldwide health concern, with a global estimate of 340 million new cases of “curable” infections (e.g., syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis) and millions of “incurable” infections (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], herpes simplex viruses [HSV], ...