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good discussion @ metafilter.
Presiden Bush’s message.
2001 marks 20 years of fighting this disease.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention facts.
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
The NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) is responsible for the scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy elements of the NIH AIDS research program and promotes collaborative research activities in both domestic and international settings.
UNAIDS Epidemic Update in pdf.
The Red Cross, working in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provide educational programs for people on how to stop the transmission of HIV, encourages people to respond in informed ways to people who have HIV, and helps people apply the facts about HIV to their own behavior.
The Filipino Task Force on AIDS provides culturally-sensitive, ethnic-specific, HIV/AIDS prevention education programs and support services to Filipinos living with HIV/AIDS.
The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), is the premier national organization dedicated to developing leadership within communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS. To promote sound national HIV/AIDS, health and social policies that are responsive to the needs of the diverse communities of color impacted by HIV/AIDS and to increase the participation of people of color in policy-making bodies.
youth and aids in the 21st century pdf
Current Facts about HIV/AIDS
(Sources: CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Kaiser Family Foundation, The White House Office on AIDS Policy.)
* Every hour of every day, two young Americans between 13 and 24 are infected with HIV.
* 51% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur in young people under 25.
* More than 25% of new HIV infections in the U.S. are contracted by teenagers.
* Every year, 44,000 more Americans are infected with HIV.
* Heterosexual intercourse is the fastest-growing mode of HIV transmission in the U.S. and the dominant mode of HIV transmission worldwide.
* Women comprise the fastest-growing population of new HIV infections in the U.S.
– Women are 8 times more likely than men to contract HIV from one act of intercourse.
* More than 75% of high-school students have had sexual intercourse by grade 12.
— More than 20% of 12th-grade students have had more than 4 sex partners.
— More than 50% report they do not always use condoms.
* There is no way to know whether an individual is HIV-positive simply by looking at him or her. Disease symptoms may not occur for up to 10 years after infection.
* More than 711,000 cases of AIDS had been reported to the CDC since 1981. More than 420,000 Americans have died of AIDS. In addition, 650,000 - 900,000 Americans are HIV-positive. The CDC estimates that 1 in 3 people with HIV do not know they are infected.
* Deaths from AIDS in the U.S. have decreased significantly, for two reasons:
1. Many AIDS-related opportunistic infections (OIs) are preventable. In years past, people with AIDS did not have information about how to prevent OIs.
2. The new combination drug therapies are effective in many cases. However, they are not a cure. Moreover, a substantial number of individuals with AIDS must stop using the new drugs because of toxic side effects or a developed resistance.
* There is no cure for AIDS.
Experts believe the earliest date we will have an HIV vaccine available for widespread use is 2015.
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