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deepa · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Location: India

HIV prevalence rates worldwide are doubling approximately every six months ?

in the UK, intravenous drug abusers account for less than 10-15% of cases - T ?

Xerxes I · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:02 am Post subject:

HIV prevalence rates worldwide are doubling approximately every six months ?
False, I would be really worried if it was True. There are around 39 million HIV/AIDS diagnosed worldwide. if it doubles every 6 months, in 2011 nearly everyone in the world will have HIV. (2^7(128)*39 000 000= 4.992.000.000)

deepa · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Location: India

thanks, what about

HIV in the UK, intravenous drug abusers account for less than 10-15% of cases - T ?

Xerxes I · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

That's true.

See here

deepa · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Location: India

thanks Xerxes

Nick Raine-Fenning · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:31 am Post subject:

Deepa - this is a good example of what I mean.

You post three direct questions from the PP Book and do not give us any idea of what your reading has suggested the answers are or what other questions may come up in the exam. The questions in the book have a 30% chance of being repeated but the remaining 70% are related to the same subject and this is why we encourage you to make your own questions up or to give us a list of other possibly useful facts about the topic / disease.
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