I'm glad you brought this up because couple of years ago my son has a school project about AIDS and No one knows for sure where AIDS comes from, Scientists have different theories and they do have a good idea of how it spread and how it is spreading over the world....
Facts About AIDS/HIV
-Approximately 700,000 to 900,000 Americans are currently infected with HIV. With 40,000 new infections each year, that is one new infection every 13 minutes.
- Worldwide, in 1999, 5.6 million people were newly infected with HIV.
-The number of U. S. teenagers infected with HIV doubles every 14 months-worldwide, half of all new infections occur in persons between the ages of 15 to 19 years old.
-Worldwide, 35 million people have been infected and 5 million have developed AIDS.
-The number of AIDS cases among women in the U. S. doubles every one to two years.
-AIDS is the leading cause of death for all African Americans between the ages of 25 to 44.
-African American and Hispanic women together account for more than 77% of AIDS cases reported among women, yet represent less than one-fourth of the total female population in the U.S.
-In Louisiana, there have been more than 18,899 individuals infected with HIV. Of those, 11,747 are still living. More than half of those reported cases are in the Metro New Orleans area.
-Minorities, primarily African Americans and Hispanics, now account for some 54% of the more than 5,000,000 cases of AIDS reported since the epidemic began in 1981.
-The disease shows no sign of ending and no cure is at hand.
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