world aids day 2008
December 1 will be the 20th World AIDS Day. Take some time to think about the fact that over 30 million people are infected with HIV worldwide–as well as the tragic extent of the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 2/3rds of the world’s HIV+ population live and 2/3rds of AIDS-related deaths occur.
For more information and resources, check out:
And for those interested, here are links to the first two articles published describing the clinical entity AIDS in the December 10, 1981 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine:
Neither article is available online at nejm.org, so refer to your local medical library but it’ll be well worth the effort. These articles make for an amazing read and it can be quite eerie–putting yourself in the shoes of the authors who were writing these case reports and then thinking about the extent to which HIV has since spread.
