HIV/AIDS killed 3M people, 5M more infected in 2003
While Republicans are busy trying to rewrite Reagan's indifference to HIV/AIDS, another 3M people died of HIV-related complications according to this Associated Press story in the WSJ (subscription required):
The report by UNAIDS, the U.N. agency responsible for coordinating global efforts to fight the disease, said the epidemic killed more than 3 million people in 2003. Around 5 million more acquired the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, bringing the number of people living with the virus to between 34 million and 46 million.
``This is an epidemic that at the start was a white middle-class gay man's disease. Today, if you use a stereotype, the face of AIDS is a young woman from Africa,'' Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, told a news conference in London.