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HIV and AIDS /
The AIDS epidemic has spread for almost 30 years. Thirty-three million people are living with HIV worldwide and 28 million have died from an AIDS-related illness since 1981, mostly in Africa. A new HIV infection is diagnosed somewhere in the world every seven seconds and someone dies from an AIDS-re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thirroul, N.S.W. :
Spinney Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Issues in society (Balmain, N.S.W.) ;
v. 322. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The AIDS epidemic has spread for almost 30 years. Thirty-three million people are living with HIV worldwide and 28 million have died from an AIDS-related illness since 1981, mostly in Africa. A new HIV infection is diagnosed somewhere in the world every seven seconds and someone dies from an AIDS-related illness every 11 seconds. Almost 17,000 people are living with HIV in Australia, and about 1,000 become infected each year; over 6,700 Australians have died from AIDS during the last 25 years. HIV and AIDS contains an overview of the history and prevalence of AIDS globally and in Australia. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (60 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781921507380 1921507381 |