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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]
The burden of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including mother-to-child transmission of HIV, disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries, in particular the countries of Southern Africa. [2] The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.3 million women and girls living with HIV become pregnant each year. [3]
AIDS is one of the top three causes of death for African American men aged 25–54 and for African American women aged 35–44 years in the United States of America. In the United States, African Americans make up about 48% of the total HIV-positive population and make up more than half of new HIV cases, despite making up only 12% of the ...
Free access to HIV-AIDS treatment exists in the U.S. In 2022, about 39 million people globally were living with HIV and about 29.8 million of them were receiving antiretroviral therapy.
[5] [7] HIV/AIDS is considered a pandemic—a disease outbreak which is present over a large area and is actively spreading. [27] The United States' National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Gates Foundation have pledged $200 million focused on developing a global cure for AIDS. [28]
[19] [20] [21] The morbidity and mortality of TB and HIV/AIDS have been closely linked, known as "TB/HIV syndemic". [21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 ...
A German man has probably been cured of HIV, a medical milestone achieved by only six other people in the more than 40 years since the AIDS epidemic began.
As cases of the HMPV virus continue to increase in the U.S. and in China, here's what you need to know about the virus.