Fewer People Are Living With HIV, But AIDS Keeps Killing While deaths by opportunistic infections are improving in HIV/AIDS patients, many feel the number is still too high. NIAID, CC BY 2.0. Comment Incidents of HIV/AIDS have been on the decline in recent years, offering many people hope that the disease may no longer be the death sentence it once was. While this may be true, and new forms of treatment and education are keeping the rates of infection low, recent research suggests that there is still much room for improvement. A new study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases gathered 30 years of data from more than 20,000 HIV/AIDS patients in San Francisco, concluding that our work is not done yet; in the years between 1997 and 2012, 35 percent or about one-third of AIDS patients still died within five years of being diagnosed with their first opportunistic infection. Researchers feel this is not an acceptable statistic. “While recent re...
A bold call for action abroad and an equally bold call for a "new way of doing business" here at home. Under the leadership of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, new structures and systems have been established at every level of the U.S. Government working in international HIV/AIDS to ensure a unified strategic approach to combating the epidemic abroad.