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AIDS - Term Papers

AIDS

The United Nations organization released disturbing estimates Thursday
of the seemingly relentless expansion of the HIV pandemic.
At a time when many Americans are increasingly optimistic that state-of-the-
art drug therapy might eliminate the virus, HIV is taking a heavy toll worldwide.
According to the agency, every minute of every day somewhere in the world,
six people become infected with HIV: 7,500 adults per day and 1,000 children.
About 30 million people have acquired the virus during the last 15 years; 6.4
million of them have died of AIDS.
Behind this mounting death count are the signs of growing social disruption.
For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, more than 1 million ...

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labor productivity, AIDS is responsible for more than
66 percent of Uganda's economically significant losses.
The virus is also spreading into new areas. For example:
-During the last three years, HIV-infection rates among Vietnamese
prostitutes jumped from 9 percent to 38 percent.
-Infection rates among blood donors in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh
have soared from 0.1 percent to more than 10 percent.
-In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Nikolayev, HIV-infection rates among
narcotics users exploded in 1995, jumping from a 1.7 percent in January to 56.5
percent in November.
-South Africa, long spared, is now being overrun. Tests of pregnant women in
the province of Kwazulu/Natal show a jump from 9.6 percent to 18 percent.
In my opinion, I think that all the scientists of the world should get
together and try to devise a cure for HIV and AIDS. It may take time, and it may
take money; but I think it is worth it in order to save mankind from extinction
and total ...

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Added: 8/14/2004 04:27:54 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
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