AIDS to Be 3rd Leading Cause of Death

Excerpted from AIDS to Be 3rd Leading Cause of Death, by Maria Cheng, published Nov 28, 2006, by Washington Post:

Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday.

When global mortality projections were last calculated a decade ago, researchers had assumed the number of AIDS cases would be declining. Instead, it’s on the rise…

The paper by Dr. Colin Mathers and Dejan Loncar of the World Health Organization estimates that at a total of least 117 million people will die from AIDS from 2006 to 2030.

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