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HIV and AIDS in Teenagers
Posted on 29. Mar, 2008 by admin.
Although most of the reported HIV and AIDS infections were men and women belonging to an older age group, teenagers are as pre-disposed to the infection as they are. There is an estimated 2.5 million HIV-infected people under fifteen years of age.
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History and Statistics
Posted on 29. Mar, 2008 by admin.
In 1981, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) documented an increasing number of extremely uncommon infections, Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, in New York and California.The infected persons were homosexual men who were not predisposed to these infections.The infections were then called GRID or gay-related immunodeficiency disease. A few months later, cases of the same [...]
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How HIV is Transmitted
Posted on 29. Mar, 2008 by admin.
There are a number of ways that HIV can be transmitted. While research and development on the human immunodeficiency virus continue to show more possible ways of transmitting HIV, only several have proven to be true.
