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World AIDS Day
Posted by Michael Forrest on 1 December 2012 | 0 Comments
Today is World AIDS Day. Around 34 million people worldwide have HIV. 25 million have died from AIDS, 1.7 million of them in 2011. Just try to imagine what that number means. When I was a medical student and trainee ophthalmologist sight-threatening complications of HIV infection, such as CMV retinitis, acute retinal necrosis and progressive outer retinal necrosis, were fairly common, and many of our patients with AIDS ultimately died.