UNAIDS: HIV rates up globally, Asia particularly worrisome.(HIV/AIDS)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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A record 4.8 million people were infected by the HIV virus in 2003, says a new report from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS released the report July 6 in Bangkok, in anticipation of the XV International AIDS Conference that the Thai capital will host from July 11 to July 16.

There were 38 million HIV-positive individuals worldwide in 2003, up from 35 million in 2001. (The report revises and slightly lowers past infection-rate estimates.) In 2003, almost 3 million people...

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