The Scientist : the fight continues [5/12/2001]

Email: Pat Hagan - phagan@btinternet.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011205-03

5 December 2001

LONDON — According to the United Nations, AIDS is now "the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced". Twenty years after the epidemic began with an outbreak in the United States, more than 60 million people have been infected with the virus and 22 million have died. It is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth biggest killer in the world.

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