World AIDS Day 2009 - december 1

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33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide
31.3 million adults
15.7 million women
2.1 million children under 15
New HIV cases in 2007:2.7 million people
2.3 million adults
430,000 children under 15
HIV-related deaths in 2007:2 million total deaths


source and stories: www.worldaidsday.org/
get a red ribbon, DUers.

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1. South Africa vows to treat all babies with HIV

All South African babies under the age of one will be treated if they test HIV-positive, President Jacob Zuma has announced in a major policy overhaul.
In a speech to mark World Aids Day, he promised more anti-retrovirals - drugs the previous government said were too expensive and potentially harmful.
And he announced he was preparing to take an HIV test himself.
Each year 59,000 babies are born with HIV in a country where 5.2 million people live with the virus.

bbc, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8388178.stm

only 1 aids-affected child on 3 in the world receives treatment.
very poor rating.

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2. Thanks for posting this thread

And hope that there will be a cure found tomorrow.