Deaths from HIV in the US Continue to Decline
October 24, 2030 - For the first time in 45 years the number of deaths from HIV in the US will be below 5,500 this year. Since the peak in 1995 when almost 55,000 people gave in for the disease, casualties have declined.
The reason for the declining mortality from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is due to more knowledge among the general population of how to be protected against the disease, and the availability of more effective highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). The last decades have seen progress in the developing of medicines to treat AIDS however there is no definite cure in sight.
Even though these numbers for the US are satisfying, AIDS has globally been outstanding in causing more deaths than any other epidemic, now counting more than 180 million people worldwide since it was recognized in year 1981. The projected life expectancy rate at birth are now five years lower in the whole of Africa, and the population is 280 million lower, than it would have been without the occurrence of AIDS.
Argument: According to the study Comparing The Public Health Burden of Chronic Hepatitis C and HIV Infection in United States, deaths from HIV in the US will be 4,200-6,700 in year 2030. The numbers of deaths worldwide from AIDS have been published by the United Nations in the report The Impact of AIDS.
Questions: The human population will be 3.5% lower in year 2030 than it would have been without the occurrence of AIDS and even if a cure is found, more than 40 million people will die before the epidemic is extinct. What is the loss of value for humanity to loose such a big part of the population? Can that value be invested today to prevent the disease to spread further?
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Comments:
This will not happen, because around 2020 there is an AIDS vaccin ready to be approved.
Posted by: Nick
hiv dude wtf i mean comeon all have to do is not have sex with infected people
Posted by: mark
Hahahahaha mark, well why didn't the rest of us think of that? Hahaha fool. Could this also due to decreased promiscuity in the gay community by approval of gay marriages as gay people are more commonly in long-term monogamous relationships?
Posted by: ryan
What's with all your questions concerning "the loss of humanity". There's far too many people populating this planet we live in. Most people are just peons and do not add anything too extraordinary to the world.
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