HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and causes in humans at some point a clinical syndrome called 'AIDS'. HIV positif people do not always have AIDS. AIDS is in a way the final stage where a person's immune system is such bad shape that a specific pallet of pathologies show up (including infections, cancers, etc.)

HIV/AIDS kills over 8,000 people a day and seems the major killer in Africa (WHO 2007). (As a comparaison, terrorism in 2005 killed less than 8,000 people in the whole year.) Currently, over 30 million people are infected, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, but also in countries such as India, Haiti and Russia.

Among the biggest players in the field of fighting global HIV/AIDS, are 

• The joint UN program called UNAIDS
• The Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
• The Gates Foundation
• The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief: PEPFAR
• The Center for Disease Control: CDC

More links are available in our Contact Page. For clinical information, such as for physicians, biologists, nurses, and hospital administrators, The European AIDS Clinical Society is also helpful. Their Website can be reached here.

UNAIDS has a lot of official collaborating centers, such as the Harvard AIDS Institute in the USA and The International AIDS Alliance in Europe. NGO The Comrads has supported them financially in the past and hopes to continue to do so in the future.

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