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[4] [5] [6] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2023, HIV/AIDS had killed approximately 40.4 million people, and approximately 39 million people were infected with HIV globally. [4] Of these, 29.8 million people (75%) are receiving antiretroviral treatment. [4] There were about 630,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2022. [4]
The President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic was a commission formed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to investigate the AIDS pandemic. It is also known as the Watkins Commission for James D. Watkins , its chairman when the commission issued its final report in 1988.
Trends in new cases and deaths per year from HIV/AIDS, 1990-2017 [225] HIV/AIDS is considered a global pandemic. [226] As of 2022, approximately 39.0 million people worldwide are living with HIV, the number of new infections that year being about 1.3 million. [154] This is down from 2.1 million new infections in 2010. [154]
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was the first church body to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in 1987 with a document entitled "The Many Faces of AIDS: A Gospel Response." [90] [91] In the document they stated that the Catholic Church must provide pastoral care to those infected with HIV/AIDS as well as medical care. [92]
Launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003, as of May 2020, PEPFAR has provided cumulative funding for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research since its inception, making it the largest global health program focused on a single disease in history until the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
Magic Johnson announces his HIV diagnosis and retirement from the Lakers on Nov. 7, 1991, with NBA Commissioner David Stern and teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at his side.
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic.The group works to improve the lives of people with AIDS through direct action, medical research, treatment and advocacy, and working to change legislation and public policies.