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According to the most recent global figures released by the United Nations, HIV/AIDS has taken the lives of over three million people in the past year. Meanwhile, an estimated five million people contracted HIV, swelling the ranks of those currently living with the disease to 40 million. Whether these grim figures may be familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being...
...there are reasons to believe that human efforts can stem the tide of this pandemic. First of all, HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was. Anti-retroviral therapy, a three-drug daily regimen used to treat the disease once it has progressed in the patient from HIV to AIDS, can transform HIV/AIDS into a manageable, chronic illness. And in the last few years, price reductions for anti-retroviral drugs in the developing world have made it possible to treat a patient for less than $140 per year. More than ever, it is possible to expand access...
...hand, “Rent” may have succeeded in reducing some of the stigma associated with the disease. Students may find it difficult to understand the degree of stigma that used to be—and to some extent still is—attached to HIV and AIDS. To this day, foreign nationals with HIV cannot visit the U.S. When “Rent” was being written, political leaders could still talk about AIDS as a punishment for gay people or a plague on the immoral. In this context, “Rent” should...
...million Estimated number of people infected with HIV worldwide, double the number a decade ago, according to a new U.N. report...
...Americans who acquire HIV each year, nearly half of them African American...