HIV/AIDS
In 2008, the CDC announced that 56,300 people were newly infected with
HIV in 2006, and that the epidemic has been worse than the predicted
40,000 infections per year.
In the mid-1990s, case reports of young patients with HIV who were
experiencing myocardial infarction sparked interest in the
connection between HIV and cardiovascular disease.
S exually transmitted diseases (STDs) ( TABLE 1 ) can be contracted later in life--a fact too often overlooked by seniors and health care providers alike.
A study by a University of Arizona evolutionary biologist that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uncovered that the AIDS virus was causing infections in the U.S. approximately 12 years before scientists officially recognized it as a disease in 1981.
Circumcision Reduces HIV Transmission Two studies in the Lancet bring the number of studies establishing a strong link between circumcision and a reduction in the risk of HIV transmission to three.