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HIV prevention

Kenneth H. Mayer and H.F. Pizer

HIV/AIDS continues to be the pandemic of our times and there has not been a comprehensive medically based AIDS prevention book published in the last 5 years. It is estimated that 36 to 45 million people including 2-3 million children already are infected worldwide and an additional 4-7 million more are infected each year. There are about 6,000 new infections daily and about 12 million AIDS orphans. People receiving AIDS treatments feel well and have no detectable viral load, but still can infect others. And even when a vaccine is found, it will take many years before it can be administered a

GenresHIV infectionsPreventionprevention & controlAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeMEDICALPreventive Medicine

692 pages

English edition · First published 2009 by Elsevier/Academic Press · ISBN 9780080921297

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