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HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus The virus that causes AIDS AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome The disease vocabulary Virus Disease Syndrome symptom Immune Immunity Deficiency Immunodeficiency Immune system Contagious Infect Infected Tainted Epidemic Pandemic Fatal Chronic Deadly Pandemic a disease that spreads across the whole world from Greek π?ν pan all + δ?μο? demos people What do people with AIDS look like? Do they look sick? Do they look like this? Would you believe me if I said these people are dying of AIDS? These famous actors died of AIDS These people all have AIDS too There’s no way to tell if someone has HIV / AIDS just by looking. How is HIV spread?3 bodily fluids: Blood Semen Vaginal secretions 3 Main causes of HIV transmission: Sex Sharing dirty needles Blood transfusions with contaminated blood. HIV is passed from mother to child during pregnancy. 28 million AIDS deaths could be prevented by 2030 New research says if the world acts now to decisively contain the AIDS pandemic, 28 million lives could be saved by 2030. The research, published online in the Public Library of Sciences Medicine journal, says AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. AIDS currently ranks as the worlds fourth top killer, after heart disease, stroke and respiratory infections. AIDS accounts for about 2.8 m million deaths every year. But in a paper, two researchers with the World Health Organization estimate at least 117 m million people will die from AIDS by 2030. 28 million AIDS deaths could be prevented by 2030 Global mortality projections were last calculated a decade ago. At the time, researchers assumed the AIDS outbreak would start declining around the year 2000. One of the researchers, Dr. Colin Mathers, says what happens in the future depends very much on what the international community does now. How do we prevent the spread of HIV? Ways to prevent the spread of HIV Avoid high risk ac