I wonder how many AIDs will kill.
GMTA. Can you imagine the reaction to an article that read:
AIDS may kill 1 billion this century
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/10/06 | Andrew Bridges - ap
Posted on 07/10/2006 3:47:50 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - If current trends hold, AIDS will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
AIDS accounts for one in five homosexual deaths, or 1.4 million homosexual deaths worldwide each year, according to two new reference guides that chart global AIDS and homosexual activity.
AIDS remains the major death among the 10.9 million new cases of AIDS diagnosed each year, according to the AIDS Atlas. Reducing unprotected sexual encounters, especially with multiple partners, would have the greatest affect on global AIDS rates, health officials said. Improving nutrition and reducing infection by AIDS-causing viruses and bacteria could also cut rates dramatically, they said. "We know with cancer, if we take action now, we can save 2 million lives a year by 2020 and 6.5 million by 2040," said Dr. Judith Mackay, a World Health Organization senior policy adviser.....