Health News from CNN'com

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Health Newsfrom CNN.com

• The AIDS Epidemic
• A worldwide study

By Stephanie Laube
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A quick review

• HIV disables the bodies immune system
• Attacks immune cells
• This forces them to make the virus
• Main targets helper T cells
• T cells organize bodys immune response

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AIDS STATISTICS

• 40 Million people living with HIV worldwide
• 5 million became infected in 2003
• 3 million died in 2003
• Highest figures yet
• 1 in 5 people infected with HIV/AIDS live in
  Southern Africa ( 30)

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A New Wave of HIV Epidemics

• China, Indonesia, and Russia cases are rising
  substantially
• Due to injected drug use and unsafe sex
• In past there was little to no cases in these
  countries

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AIDS in the UNITED STATES

• New infections 70 men and 30 women
• Half are younger than 25
• AIDS is the 5th leading cause of death from
  people ages 25-44.

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Only 25 states tracking AIDS Virus

• 2 large states New York and California not
  included
• 900,000 people are infected and 300,000 dont
  even know it

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Aids Worldwide
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Cases could triple by 2010

• Russia, India, China, Ethiopia, and Nigeria
• Current cases between the 5 countries 14 million
  - 23 million
• By 2010 Estimated cases between 50 million and 70
  million
• The five together comprise more than 40 percent
  of the world's population
• Worldwide cases could be as high as 80 million by
  the end of the decade

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US to launch 36 million AIDS vaccine trial

• Prime part of vaccine called ALVAC-HIV
• Invented by Aventis Pasteur
• The boost is called AIDSVAX_B/E
• Made by VaxGen

• Participants will receive a set of three primer
  shots 2 booster shots
• Other half to receive placebo

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Trial continued

• Vaccine designed to prevent freely circulated
  virus from affecting unaffected cells
• Scheduled to begin in 2007 or 2008
• Efforts could cost 400 million
• Investors expect a return on their investment

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