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HIV/AIDS BLACK AMERICAN EPIDEMIC

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Getting It Right With Dr Boles

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana has more HIV positive people than anywhere else in the United States. AIDS,Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus  (HIV). The illness makes it more likely to get infections  and tumor.  HIV is  transmitted by  anal, vaginal  and oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles,   exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, and  breastfeeding. It can be transmitted by any contact with an infected person’s bodily fluid that contains the AIDS virus in it. Body fluids are identified as  blood, semen, vaginal fluid, seminal fluid, , and breast mild.           

            In 2009, the  World Health Organizaton  (WHO) estimated that there are 33.4 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, with 2.7 million new HIV infections per year and 2.0 million annual deaths due to AIDS.

  First case os AIDS in America was June 1981. From 1981 to 2001 -- 1.4 MILLION persons in United States were infected with HIV. There is NO PREVENTIVE medication available for HIV infection. There is a new promising risk-lowering medication being released this year, 2012.   

See this information on these YouTube videos     http://youtu.be/EYXHov3dCNI   

               http://youtu.be/Us6VqfPsXjE 

 

 

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