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Home > AIDS Death Toll 'Likely' to Surpass That of Bubonic Plague

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Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 02:00

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv_recent_rep.cfm?dr_cat=1&show=yes&dr_DateTime=25-Jan-02#9125 [2]

Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [3]
Issue Number: 
51 [4]
Article-Summary: 

AIDS -- which has already killed 25 million people worldwide -- will overtake the bubonic plague as the "world's worst pandemic" if the 40 million people currently infected with HIV do not get access to life-prolonging drugs, according to a public health expert, Reuters/Contra Costa Times reports.

Category: 
Food & Health [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/5458 [6]

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