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This year’s report uses national household surveys, which are believed to be more representative of the prevalence of HIV. Under the new method, the number of HIV victims in India dropped by more than half, to 2.5 million...
...Joint United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) acknowledged last week that it had overestimated the prevalence of the global HIV epidemic, confirming a Harvard School of Public Health professor’s three-year-old claim that the UNAIDS figures were too large...
UNAIDS decreased its estimate of the number of people living with HIV from 39.5 million in 2006 to 33.2 million...
...previous reports, UNAIDS had estimated national rates by extrapolating data collected at public health clinics, where young women who thought they might be pregnant or infected with a sexually transmitted disease were given anonymous blood tests. But that method gave extra statistical weight to groups with higher HIV rates, such as prostitutes and drug abusers, and virtually disregarded rural women...
...rarely give thought to, despite being disgusted by reports of female circumcision. The surgery causes severe pain and trauma, yet many doctors still don't use anesthesia. The genital health of European males is comparable to that of U.S. males, and it is better in some ways--for example, HIV infection rates are lower among (mostly intact) European males than among (mostly circumcised) U.S. males...