NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa, Aids, Thymidine

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90% of the drug drivers are infected with aids. In los angeles, 1967-1978: only two cases of pcp in immuno compromised patients. Plus other conditions linked to immuno suppression. Other ways of getting a similar syndrome. Female sex partners of aids positive, iv drugs users and hemophiliacs. Approximately 40 million people in the world are hiv infected. Approximately 11 000 new hiv infections occur daily around the world. Over 95% of the infections are in developing countries. About 2. 8 million people are infected right now with hiv. Several countries in sub-saharan africa report infection rates of 20-35% Aids/hiv in western countries: the u. s. as an example. The cumulative estimated number of diagnoses of aids in the u. s. since 1981 is approximately 1 million. An estimated 1,400,000 persons in the u. s. are infected with hiv. Existing and potential drugs for aids are based on unique enzymatic activities of the hiv in hiv infected cells.

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