Imagine for a moment the city
the size of Philadelphia or Phoenix. You
visit the thriving city and then return the following year to find it a complete ghost town.
Everyone in the city is dead.
The Global Health Observatory
estimates that 1.5 million people died from HIV/Aids in 2013 which is roughly
the population of one of the above mentioned cities.
Up until now at least 39
million people have died from HIV/Aids worldwide.
About 1 in 20 adults living in
Sub Saharan Africa are infected with HIV
In 2010 the Centers for
Disease Control estimated that HIV infection was the ninth leading cause of
death for Native American people ages 25 to 34
Every year, with increased
prevention education and availability of antiretroviral therapy, the death toll
is going down.
Though progress is being in
the fight against HIV, the devastating effects of the retrovirus are still a
major health problem and cause of human suffering.
About 35 million people were
living with HIV in 2013
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