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  2. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [8] [9] [10] is a retrovirus [11] that attacks the immune system.It is a preventable disease. [5] There is no vaccine or cure for HIV. It can be managed with treatment and become a manageable chronic health condition. [5]

  3. HIV - Wikipedia

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    The management of HIV/AIDS typically involves the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs. In many parts of the world, HIV has become a chronic condition, with progression to AIDS increasingly rare. HIV latency and the resulting viral reservoir in CD4 + T cells, dendritic cells, and macrophages is the main barrier to eradication of the virus. [19 ...

  4. History of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    The HIV/AIDS epidemic of its time in the year of 1987, had taken the lives of nearly 60,000 people across the globe. [109] Its history tells the timeline of how US ...

  5. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

  6. List of HIV-positive people - Wikipedia

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    Mexican AIDS activist and director of CENSIDA, Mexico's top AIDS agency, since 2003. [87] Jim St. James (1954–1990) Canadian actor and activist best known for starring in a series of HIV/AIDS awareness commercials on Canadian television in the 1980s, and as the subject of a biography by journalist June Callwood. [88] Pedro Julio Serrano (born ...

  7. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    While UN AIDS was officially created in 1994 with UN resolution, [6] and launched in 1996, the roots of UN AIDS can be traced back to the first recorded case of HIV/AIDS 15 years prior in 1981, and the launch of the Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS ("GNP+") started in 1986 by Dietmar Bolle, an HIV positive specialist nurse and ...

  8. Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    In HIV-positive people, AIDS is officially diagnosed when the count drops below 200 cells/μL or when certain opportunistic infections occur. This use of a CD4 count as an AIDS criterion was introduced in 1992; the value of 200 was chosen because it corresponded with a greatly increased likelihood of opportunistic infection.

  9. Wikipedia:VideoWiki/HIV-AIDS - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, about 36.7 million people were living with HIV, and it resulted in 1 million deaths. [11] There were 300,000 fewer new HIV cases in 2016 than in 2015. [ 12 ] Most of those infected, live in sub-Saharan Africa .

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