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1) How many adults/children were newly infected with HIV in 2008? Where was the majority located?
2) How many adults/children died due to AIDS in 2008? 3) What is the overall effect on prevalence? 4) How many people were living with HIV in 2008? |
1) 2.7 million. 2 million from Sub-Saharan Africa
2) 2.0 million died 3) Prevalence is increasing, because more are becoming infected and less are dying. Number of people living with HIV is increasing. 4) 33.4 million |
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1) How many new HIV infections were there per day in 2008? What populations make up this number?
2) What % are in low and middle-income countries? |
1) 7400. 1200 <15 years of age, 6200 are 15+, 48% women, 40% young
2) 97% in low or middle income countries |
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How many people in North America die annually from HIV? What % of annual US mortality is that?
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25,000. <1% of annual US mortality. Heart disease (650,000 and cancer (560,000) beat it by far.
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Why is prevalance trend of AIDS increasing?
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1) More people getting infected than dying
2) HAART and ART reduces mortality, increases morbidity. |
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How does AZT work?
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Reverse transcriptase inhibitor, sits in active site of HIV
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What is the number of adults+ children living with HIV in:
1) Sub-Saharan Africa in 2001? 2) Sub-Saharan Africa in 2008? 3) North America in 2001? 4) North America in 2008? |
1) ~20 million
2) ~22 million 3) ~1.2 million 4) ~1.4 million |
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What is the main global hot spot for HIV? How many new cases did they have in 2008?
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Sub-Saharan Africa - 1.9 million new cases in 2008
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What country in Africa has the highest prevalence of AIDS?
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Botswana
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Coinfection with HIV and TB;
1) How many more times likely are you to develop active TB? 2) How does this affect transmission of TB? 3) What does this do to the general population with latent TB? |
1) 800% more likely
2) Increases transmission of TB 3) Increases general population with latent TB |
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What continents have the highest percentage of incident tuberculosis cases in people living with HIV?
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North Africa and Middle East
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Which race is more predisposed to acquiring AIDS? What % of total US population do they make up? What % of AIDS cases do they make up? What is the trend in this race?
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Blacks. 13% of total US pop, 49% of AIDS cases. Increasing trend
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What is the trend in HIV infections in whites in the US, vs. blacks?
What is the trend in HIV infections in white females in the US vs. black females? |
White incidence is falling, blacks is rising.
White females - incidence low. Incidence among black females is rising. |
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What mode of transmission is primarily responsible for AIDS in men? Women?
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Men - M2M sexual contact
Women - High-risk heterosexual contact |
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Why is prevalence in AIDS increasing?
Is AIDS seen more in the normal population or in sex workers? |
HAART. Normal population.
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