Abstract
Now, when the coronavirus pandemic has swept the whole world, few people recall that AIDS was called the plague of XX century. Manifestations of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are the terminal stage of infection of the body with the human immunodeficiency virus, which belongs to retroviruses and leads to the development of secondary immunodeficiency. The first case of HIV infection in an adult was described in 1981 in America. A young homosexual sought help for a fungal infection resistant to treatment in one of the hospitals of San Francisco. Some time after the treatment, pneumonia developed in the young man, from the complications of which he soon died. Human immunodeficiency virus got its name only in 1982, and the disease caused by it began to be called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Today there are more than 40 million infected people in the world, 2/3 of whom live in Africa. Nearly 100 million people have been infected with HIV since the beginning of the epidemic, and the number of victims is twice as much as the number of people killed in the World War I. Despite the fact that this infection is not transmitted by airborne droplets, in the household and via contact, the growth rate of this disease continues to shock. So, every day about 5 thousand people in the world become infected with HIV, about 1 million die every year from the complications of this disease. It should be noted that only 71% of infected people know about their status, while all the rest continue to be a potential source of the spread of this terrible infection.
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