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HIV AND AIDS
Hiv and Aids
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News
Positive of Aids virus is no longer a Death Sentence It's now 30 years since the HIV/AIDS virus came to prominence. There's still no outright cure for the 33 million people living with the illness, but advances in treatment are giving cause for hope
Those who envisage an end to the pandemic emphasize the importance of education in combating social stigmas and making testing for the virus more commonplace.
Testing for the HIV virus is the key to wiping out Aids.
Economic crisis force the countries to re consider its ambition to undertake measures as many countries have stopped contributing.
We are coming across the same cases which we came across in 80’s and most worrying of all is that people who could have been saved were never informed about the opportunity to test for HIV.
Hiv and Adis
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VocabularyHiv and Aids
Aids: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) is the virus that causes Aids.
Envisage: To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility.
Pandemic: Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
Combating: To oppose vigorously; struggle against.
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HIV and Aids
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Aids SIDA
HIV HIV
Envisage envisager
Pandemic pandémie
Combating la lutte contre la
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HIV and Adis
How is HIV Transmitted ?
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HIV and Aids
Awareness and Education
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HIV and Aids
Fund raising by innovative means
Political will to create a cure with the help of technology