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HIV to be top health problem within 25 years

AIDS set to become world's biggest problem disease.

AIDS will become the world's most burdensome disease by 2030, according to predictions released today. Its predicted rise, which will overtake today's top problem of poor perinatal health (such as low birth weight), is being blamed on many countries' failure to impose proper prevention measures since the pandemic was first revealed.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 28, 2006 01:00 AM |

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