WORLD AIDS DAY {3 facts}
There is a lot of coverage in this site about HIV and we have a page which is refresh at least once a month with a new piece of breaking news from the CDC or any scientist or scion org in any country with a new development. Besides we have the constant reporting and editorials about HIV, those that have it and those that have or not but play games with it. We put it out there… is up to you to look.
As we celebrate the AIDS days we are full of hope unlike in the past we could only read names of the dead and cry. We are in a better situation but still frustrated that not enough money is given to wipe it off the, particularly in those countries in Africa in which most people and kids are both orphans because AIDS is taking them all.
It's World AIDS Day, a day started in 1988 to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS and work to end the epidemic.
HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. HIV can progress into AIDS, the final state of the infection when the body is unable to fight disease or infection.
Here are seven facts about where things stand today:
*. An estimated 34 million people have HIV/AIDS worldwide. In the USA, an estimated 1.2 million people live with HIV and one out of every seven are not aware they have the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
*. Sub-Saharan Africa has the most people living with HIV in the world and 70% of all new HIV infections occur there. In 2013, there were an estimated 24.7 million cases in the region, according to the World Health Organization.
The most Amazing fact is:
*. In the USA, the number of new HIV infections reported have decreased from approximately 130,000 a year to 50,000 a year since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, according to the CDC.
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