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(ISRAEL365NEWS) -- Since acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered over 40 years ago, an estimated 80 million people have been infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and about 37 million around the world have died of it. It has been the third-deadliest pandemic in world history after the bubonic plague (“Black Death”) in the 14th century and the flu pandemic of 1918 killed up to 50 million people, when the world population was much smaller than it is today.
The virus damages the cells in the immune system and weakens one’s ability to fight everyday infections and disease. About 38 million people are living with the disease, thanks to a “cocktail” of pills that they take daily. That development that made the disease much less terrifying than it was before antiretroviral drugs were made available in most countries.
There is currently no cure, and we still have a long way to go before a treatment is found that would provide the patients with a permanent cure. But these medications turned AIDS into a chronic disease, making possible a normal life – yet it is still one that can kill if the drugs are unavailable or not taken properly.
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