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Global Report for UNAIDS - 2010
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) A total of 28 people have tested positive for HIV/AIDS in Jordan since the beginning of the year, a health official said on Sunday.
A 20-year-old HIV-positive person starting antiretroviral (ARV) therapy today can expect to live, on average, to the age of 69, according to new calculations published July 26 in The Lancet. The study authors say this is a life expectancy increase of 37 percent over projections for 20-year-olds starting ARVs during the early years of combination treatment.
Survey conducted during AIDS week 2009
“Think Positive” association has organized an activity for three days at the sports city from the 23rd till 25th of October, 2009 as part of the 85th year celebration of the establishment of the Lebanese patriotic resistance.
CAIRO, 30 December 2009 (IRIN) - A new report says Egypt is moving towards a"concentrated HIV epidemic", as an increasing number of HIV patients arebeing recorded.
"EIGHT-YEAR TREND SHOWS NEW HIV INFECTIONS DOWN BY 17%—MOST PROGRESS SEEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA "
JOHANNESBURG, 24 November 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The rate of new HIV infections worldwide has declined by 17 percent in the past eight years and prevention efforts can take some of the credit, according to the annual UNAIDS update on the epidemic released on 24 November.
The problem of HIV in the
In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people globally—most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of the world where antiretroviral therapy for HIV is not available.
United Nations agencies plan to use hundreds of thousands of post offices around the world as part of a new campaign to raise awareness about HIV prevention at a time when more than 7,400 new infections occur every day.
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