Publication Date:
2000-08-06
Description:
As we enter the new millennium the world is still facing the challenge of responding to the AIDS pandemic. A new report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS presents the latest statistics on prevalence, spread, and impact of the disease. In their Perspective, Schwartlander and his colleagues discuss the newly released statistics and the strategies needed to combat the further spread of HIV/AIDS and to reduce prevalence in the most severely affected countries.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schwartlander, B -- Garnett, G -- Walker, N -- Anderson, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jul 7;289(5476):64-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉UNAIDS, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 27 CH-1211, Switzerland. schwartlanderb@unaids.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10928930" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy/*epidemiology/prevention &
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control/transmission
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Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use
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*Disease Outbreaks
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Female
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*Global Health
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HIV Infections/drug therapy/*epidemiology/prevention & control/transmission
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Health Policy
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Humans
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Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
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Male
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Population Dynamics
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Prevalence
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Risk-Taking
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Sexual Behavior
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United Nations
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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