Africa

At the end of the year 2000, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that 36.1 million people were living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS, caused by HIV, is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that attacks the immune system and takes about five to ten years before killing its victim. Treatments for AIDS are drug cocktails, but they only slow the disease down. Drug cocktails have to …

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