Impact of AIDS

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In this article, the writer notes that HIV infection represents among the most pressing public-policy and public-health problems worldwide. The writer points out that in July of 1982, the disease was renamed AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The writer remarks that since then, the disease's origins, the factors affecting it, the causes behind it, the symptoms arising from it, the groups at risk from it and the practices leading to it have been widely and comprehensively researched. Further, the writer notes that despite painstaking efforts and billions of dollars spent on research and despite the numerous drugs created to control and relieve its various symptoms, there is still no cure for it. The writer maintains and discusses that many blame the delayed political response and lack of acknowledgment by the Reagan administration for the lack of control over AIDS.

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"Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid-1994 more than 402,000 AIDS cases, and more than 241,000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infected with the virus through the mid-1990s, but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition, although the vast majority of documented cases have occurred in the United States, AIDS cases have also been reported in almost every country in the world.
HIV infection and AIDS represent among the most pressing public-policy and public-health problems worldwide. Concerted efforts are under way to address the problem at many levels, and they offer hope for successful strategies to combat HIV-induced disease."
"HIV infection and AIDS represent among the most pressing public-policy and public-health problems worldwide. Concerted efforts are under way to address the problem at many levels, and they offer hope for successful strategies to combat HIV-induced disease."

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