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References

Dotinga, R. (2005, July 01). Genetic HIV Resistance Deciphered. Retrieved February

! 10, 2012, from

! http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/01/66198?currentPage=all

An article published by Wired Magazine describing the scienti!c causes for certain people

having a higher resistance to developing AIDS. e article focuses less on the virus itself and

more on research done to discover the reason why certain people are more resistant to

developing AIDS. e article describes interviews with scientists researching the subject.

Pisani, E. (2011, September 3). HIV. New Scientist, 211(2828), i-8.

An article published in New Scientist giving an overview of the history of HIV/AIDS and

a description of the virus. e article focuses more on the social, economical, and impact of

the virus, though it does describe the virus itself.

Rambaut, A., Posada, D., Crandall, K.A., & Holmes, E.C. (2004, January). The Causes

! and Consequences of HIV Evolution. Nature, 5, 52-61

A scienti!c article published in the medical section of Nature Magazine. e article gives a

brief history of HIV/AIDS, however, it is more speci!c to the scienti!c aspect of the disease.

It focuses speci!cally on the evolution of HIV itself as well as how the virus interacts with the

body.

Rawlings, N. (2011, December 26). Untold Stories. Time, 178(25), 34. Retrieved

! February 15, 2012, from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

! direct=true&db=ulh&AN=69840728&site=src-live

is is an article describing the possibility of stem cell treatment as a viable cure for HIV. e article

goes over the success story of one patient due to stem cell transplants, as well as scienti!c information

regarding the subject. of HIV and the difficulties this has posed for scientists working on a cure.

e article also describes in detail the ways in which the virus has evolved and what speci!c challenges

each change poses.

Stein, J. M. (1975). The Random House College Dictionary. (Revised ed., Vol. 1). New

! York, NY: Random House Reference

A dictionary used to de!ne the terms HIV, AIDS, and lentivirus. ese, being medical terms,

needed a legitimate source for their de!nition, the dictionary being the most accurate.

The Nobel Foundation. (2012, February 28). The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

! 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2012, from http://www.nobelprize.org/

! nobel_prizes/!medicine/laureates/2008/index.html

e website for the Nobel Prize Foundation. is website lists the winners of the Nobel Prize

in Physiology or Medicine in 2008.

World Health Organization. (2011, June). World Health Organization Fact Sheets.

! Retrieved February 15, 2012, from

! http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index.html

is article published on the website of the World Health Organization, lists the leading

causes of death in the world by age, broad income group, and the total for the world. e

statistics were last updated in June of 2011.