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GLOBAL HEALTH Volume 351:115-117 July 8, 2004 Number 2 Next

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As the AIDS pandemic enters its 24th year, the number of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continues to increase steadily (see Figure).¹ Two thirds of infected persons are in Africa, where the epidemic exploded during the 1990s, and one fifth are in Asia, where the epidemic has been growing rapidly in recent years. As of the end of 2003, an estimated 34.6 million to 42.3 million people throughout the world were living with HIV infection, and more than 20 million had died of AIDS.² In that year alone, about 4.8 million people became infected with HIV, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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