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U.N. Says 39.5 Million People Have HIV

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Posted on Nov 21, 2006

It’s spreading fastest in Eastern and Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but almost two-thirds of the world’s cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. “AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria make up the deadliest triad the world has known,” said the U.N.‘s Kofi Annan.


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The global HIV epidemic is growing, leaving an estimated 39.5 million people worldwide infected with the deadly virus, the United Nations said Tuesday.

AIDS has claimed 2.9 million lives this year and another 4.3 million people became infected with HIV, according to the U.N.‘s AIDS epidemic update report, published on Tuesday. Spread of the disease was most noticeable in East Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since the first case was reported in 1981, making it one of the most destructive illnesses in history.

“In a short quarter of a century AIDS has drastically changed our world,” U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at a staff meeting Monday in Geneva. “AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria make up the deadliest triad the world has known.”

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By mite, November 22, 2006 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment
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Where did the synthetic biological agent come from Hmm?
Dept. of Defense Approprations for 1970 91st Congress First Session George H. Mahon, Texas, Chairman H.B. 15090
U.S. Government Printing Orffice, Washington, 1969
Did the request for $10 Million from the Defense Dept. succeed in the development of a synthetic AIDS virus?
Did the World Health Organization inject AIDS-laced smallpox vaccine (Vaccina)into over 100million Africans? (population reduction in 1977) Did some one inject over 2000 young white males homosexuals (trojan horse) in 1978 with the hepatitus `B’ vacine? New York-CDC

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