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29/11/2006 10:30:11
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 Science's 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 world's fourth top killer, after heart disease, stroke and respiratory infections.
AIDS accounts for about 2.8 million deaths every year. But in a paper, two researchers with the World Health Organization estimate at least 117 million people will die from AIDS 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.
Source: CTV.ca
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