a.Prevention, Treatment Efforts Have 'Broken' the Direction of AIDS

1.    What is today?
Wednesday is December first.
2.  Are the number of Aids-related deaths increasing or decreasing? Why?

 The number of AIDS-related deaths and the number of new infections are both decreasing. Because experts are reporting more signs of success in halting the AIDS epidemic.  HIV infections have fallen almost twenty percent in the last ten years. so there has been a similar drop in the last five years in the number of AIDS-related deaths.

3. The latest UNAIDS report says new HIV infections have fallen almost ___________ percent in the last ten years.
Twenty.
4.  Which populations are most at risk?
 Africa south of the Sahara has the most deaths and new infections.

5. In other news, how many non-smokers have died as a result of second hand smoke?

Six hundred thousand non-smokers died in two thousand four