AIDS, the killer disease that has orphaned millions of kids and widowed thousands of women may not be a global epidemic as once predicted, according to a WHO expert. Kevin De Cock, the WHO expert is of the opinion that the threat may be confined to gay men, drug addicts and prostitutes and their clients. He also says that the large-scale heterosexual spread was unlikely to occur anywhere outside sub-Saharan Africa whereas the experts were concerned about the growing number of HIV cases in Asia earlier. The United Nations had predicted that the number if people with HIV worldwide as 40 million and later slashed the estimate to 33 million. Nearly 3 million people are now receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report jointly launched by WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF. There are criticisms that the organizations were spending huge amounts educating people in places where the threat is less instead of working in countries that had high-risk groups. Though De Cock’s statement comes as a relief for all those who are concerned, the fact that it continues to be a deadly disease with no cure cannot be overlooked.
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