The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized among homosexual males in the United States in 1981. Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was limited initially, but has since exploded over the past two decades and became the worst epidemic of the twentieth century. The AIDS epidemic ranks with the influenza pandemic and the Bubonic plague with more than 25 million fatalities.
The AIDS epidemic continues to spread into new areas. As of July 2006, 38.6 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, and more than 27 million had died since the epidemic began (Quinn, T., 2007). An estimated 4.9 million people became infected with HIV in 2005 which includes 700,000 children who became infected from their mothers while they were pregnant. Also, 209 million people died due to AIDS in 2005 (Quinn, T., 2007). On a daily basis, 14,000 people became infected with HIV increasingly among mother-to-infant transmission.
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Title: Hiv/Aids: A Pandemic
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