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Here’s question seven in our lead-up to World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
Remember when you answer each day’s HIV/AIDS question correctly, you are eligible to win a free CD – your choice of either Portable Sounds by tobyMac or Beyond Measure by Jeremy Camp. We’ll randomly choose a winner each day from the correct answers.
The answer to yesterday’s question is false.
ART is not a cure for HIV; rather ART prevents the virus from replicating in the body. By stopping HIV from making copies of itself, less virus occurs in the body, which in turn allows the immune system (T cells) to rebuild itself. A stronger immune system can then defend the body and keep a person fairly healthy.
Source: www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/treatment/index.htm, November 2008
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November 18th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Since it’s “discovery” in 1981, 25 million people have died due to AIDs.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:13 am
“More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.”
http://www.avert.org
November 18th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
More than 25 million people since ‘81.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
23 millon have died
November 18th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
over 25 million, surpassing bubonic plague, but since 3 million die per year, you could multiply that by 28 years (beg. 1981), it’s around 84 million deaths. (my guess)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Joy Caguioa Tadeo was one of three people who provided the answer we were looking for, 23 million. She answered correctly via our Facebook page and won the CD for the day.
An estimated 23 million people died of AIDS between 1990 and 2007.
Source: 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic Executive Summary, p. 18
http://www.UNAIDS.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Default.asp
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
The true death toll from AIDS over the entire world is 53,000,000 since 1957 where Dr. Hilary Kaprowski started the disease by infecting 1,000,000 Africans in the Belgium Congo with colaboration between the Belgium Government and the United States Government. This is called Genocide.