World AIDS Day
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Just a reminder. December 1 is World AIDS Day. My only editorial remark is to say that this has become, largely,a disease of the poor and disenfranchised, and you have to wonder how that affects progress in its elimination.
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/
Anyway, with all the drugs that have made this a chronic, manageable, but still fatal illness in the US, here's a little reminder of its impact:
From UNAIDS: Worldwide, as of 2007, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.
From the CDC: The cumulative estimated number of cases of AIDS through 2006 in the United States and dependent areas was 1,014,797.*
In 2006, the estimated number of persons living with AIDS in the United States and dependent areas was 448,871.*
*Only includes those diagnosed with an AIDS-defining illness, i.e. - not HIV infection without such a diagnosis.
The cumulative estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS in the United States and dependent areas, through 2006, was 565,927.
At the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS, with 24%-27% undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV infection.
From avert.org: http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
"During the 1990s, the epidemic shifted steadily toward a growing proportion of AIDS cases among black people and Hispanics and in women, and toward a decreasing proportion in MSM [men who have sex with men], although this group remains the largest single exposure group. Black people and Hispanics have been disproportionately affected since the early years of the epidemic. In absolute numbers, blacks have outnumbered whites in new AIDS diagnoses and deaths since 1996, and in the number of people living with AIDS since 1998."
"In developing and transitional countries, 9.7 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 2.99 million (31%) are receiving the drugs. "
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/
Anyway, with all the drugs that have made this a chronic, manageable, but still fatal illness in the US, here's a little reminder of its impact:
From UNAIDS: Worldwide, as of 2007, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.
From the CDC: The cumulative estimated number of cases of AIDS through 2006 in the United States and dependent areas was 1,014,797.*
In 2006, the estimated number of persons living with AIDS in the United States and dependent areas was 448,871.*
*Only includes those diagnosed with an AIDS-defining illness, i.e. - not HIV infection without such a diagnosis.
The cumulative estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS in the United States and dependent areas, through 2006, was 565,927.
At the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS, with 24%-27% undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV infection.
From avert.org: http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
"During the 1990s, the epidemic shifted steadily toward a growing proportion of AIDS cases among black people and Hispanics and in women, and toward a decreasing proportion in MSM [men who have sex with men], although this group remains the largest single exposure group. Black people and Hispanics have been disproportionately affected since the early years of the epidemic. In absolute numbers, blacks have outnumbered whites in new AIDS diagnoses and deaths since 1996, and in the number of people living with AIDS since 1998."
"In developing and transitional countries, 9.7 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 2.99 million (31%) are receiving the drugs. "
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(and a laugh ...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=driiKuFYxvA&feature=related )
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Disappointing