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Every day, HIV infects 7000 people

Karāchi : Pakistan | Jul 18, 2011 at 4:27 AM PDT

By lalag

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The new infected every six seconds

More than seven thousand people worldwide are infected daily with human immunodeficiency virus, from which thousands of - children. According to the report, released in Rome opened in the sixth Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and prevention of HIV, a new infected every six seconds.

According to the authors of the study, every hour in the world of AIDS kills about 200 people, about five thousand a day. Experts note that the pace of the "plague of the XX century" remains very high, and that the disease actually is not monitored.

As the conference co-chairman Stefano Vela, "if we are to overcome the virus, treatment and undergo therapy to all infected - as it did in the 1950s with the fight against tuberculosis."

According to RIA Novosti, a forum to discuss a further struggle against HIV and AIDS will continue until July 20. One of the plenary sessions will focus on measures to combat the spread of HIV among drug users in 2015.

lalag is based in Karāchi, Sind, Pakistan, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

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