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AIDS: Acquire immune deficiency syndrome HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus CD4+: T helper cells CCR5: Chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 5 CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WHO: World Health Organization PCP: Pneumocystis pneumonia TB: Tuberculosis MTCT: Mother-to-child transmission HAART: Highly active antiretroviral therapy STI/STD: Sexually transmitted infection/disease

Trivia about aids

  • Immune Rsponse Corp. sued UC when a university study said Remune, a drug for this disease, doesn't work
  • The 1987 book "And the Band Played On" alerted many Americans to this disease
  • Dr. David Ho, who's leading the fight against this disease, was named Time's Man of the Year for 1996
  • Drugs called protease inhibitors show great promise in the fight against this disease
  • In 1981 the first cases of this disease were published in the CDC's "Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report"
  • "3 by 5" is a program to provide, by 2005, anti-retroviral therapy to 3 million suffering from this
  • Elizabeth Glaser, wife of actor Paul Michael, helped start a foundation to battle pediatric this disease
  • All Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are trained to instruct locals on stopping this retroviral epidemic
  • Itself an acronym, it's the A in ARC, when the RC is "related complex"
  • Airline steward Gaetan Dugas, who died in 1984, was identified as "Patient Zero" of this disease

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