Everyone Has Heard, Read, Or Even Experience Hiv. Those

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Everyone has heard, read, or even experience HIV. Those letters stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). Unlike some other viruses, the human body cannot win the battle against HIV. Once someone contracts the virus, it will attack the body’s immune system, specifically the CD4 cells (T cells), which help the immune system to fight infections. Over time, HIV can destroy many of these cells, making the body vulnerable to opportunistic infections or cancers.
The United Nations currently estimates that there are close to 34 million people in the world living with HIV. New infections with HIV have a very rapid rate of approximately 16,000 every day and 6
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The relationship and differences between rich and poor countries has been proved to be an important factor to consider when analyzing different epidemiologic rates. The United Nations under its special sector named UNAIDS has a specific goal of closing the resource gap for HIV responses. UNAIDS identifies the lack of external funding as one of the major factors involved in the inequity between developed and developing countries. The flattening and decline of HIV external funding concerns not only low-income countries, historically dependent on foreign aid, but also an increasing number of classified middle and upper-middle income countries in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, and Latina America and the Caribbean. UNAIDS also exposes “the lack of data on HIV spending, funding flows and unit costs, coupled with inadequate expenditure tracking and financial planning and management skills among AIDS program managers that make it difficult not only to take stock of domestic investment and potential inefficiencies, but also to properly plan and make the case for HIV investment.”
The Global AIDS Fund, founded in 2002, is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases. The Global Fund raises and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most in need. They believe that “the only way to end AIDS,

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