Nurse Researchers And Educators Reveal The New Faces Of HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day 2009 will be marked with both grim and hopeful data: more than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide since 1981; 33 million are living with HIV/AIDS. While potent, effective medications have changed an HIV diagnosis from death sentence to manageable chronic illness in resource rich countries, global rates of infection still outstrip prevention and treatment capacity. And, increasingly, past “knowns” don’t apply. Half of all people with HIV worldwide are now women.

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