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Patient, Researchers Look Back at Battle Against AIDS
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Patient, Researchers Look Back at Battle Against AIDS
Thirty years ago (6/05/81), medical experts reported the first cases of a mysterious and lethal new infection. The immune-system disease soon had a name — AIDS -- and the virus that causes it -- HIV-- soon became a global scourge, killing more than two million people every year. But medical research has turned the tide again AIDS. Today, the virus is no longer a certain death sentence, and while it still kills more than a million people each year, a new generation of drugs has enabled more than 30 million people today to live with HIV. VOA’s Vidushi Sinha has more on the history of HIV/AIDS and the challenges that remain in ending this worldwide plague.
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Date Found: June 03, 2011
Date Produced: June 02, 2011
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