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  2. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization has reported that deaths from HIV and AIDS have "fallen by 61%, moving from the world’s seventh leading cause of death in 2000 to the twenty-first in 2021." [ 227 ] Among persons living with HIV (PLWH), the largest proportion reside in eastern and southern Africa (20.6 million, 54.6%).

  3. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms Diseases and disorders SADS Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome: SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome: SB Spina bifida: SBMD Sensory-based motor disorder: SBS Shaken baby syndrome: SC Sydenham chorea: SD Saint Vitus's dance (see Sydenham chorea) SDD Sensory discrimination disorder SDS Sudden death syndrome SHF Systolic heart failure: SIDS

  4. HIV - Wikipedia

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    While HIV is highly virulent, transmission through sexual contact does not occur when an HIV-positive individual maintains a consistently undetectable viral load (<50 copies/ml) due to antiretroviral treatment. This concept was first proposed by the Swiss Federal Commission for AIDS/HIV in 2008 in what is known as the Swiss Statement.

  5. AIDES - Wikipedia

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    AIDES [1] is a French community-based non-profit organisation that was founded in 1984 by Daniel Defert, following the death, from HIV/AIDS, of his partner Michel Foucault. The name is a play on "aides" (French for "help") and the English acronym "AIDS".

  6. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information may become outdated.

  7. List of medical mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...

  8. HIV and men who have sex with men - Wikipedia

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    It was not until July 1982 that the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was suggested to replace GRID, [6] and it was not until September that the CDC first officially used the AIDS acronym. [7] Scientists and physicians now know that HIV/AIDS does not only affect MSM and can infect anybody, regardless of sex and sexual orientation.

  9. Management of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    HAART decreases the patient's total burden of HIV, maintains function of the immune system, and prevents opportunistic infections that often lead to death. [2] HAART also prevents the transmission of HIV between serodiscordant same-sex and opposite-sex partners so long as the HIV-positive partner maintains an undetectable viral load.