NYSED Global History and Geography Online Resource Guide: Turningpoints

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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first identified in 1981. AIDS is a devastating disease that leaves its victims helpless against infections, cancers and neurological disorders. By the end of the 1990s the number of AIDS cases in the United States were declining, but approximately 40 million people suffer from HIV in Africa and Asia where conditions of poverty and poor health care services exacerbate treatment of poor, illiterate populations. Recent breakthroughs hold the promise of a single pill that will inhibit the virus. The devastation caused by AIDS can be likened to the Plague in the 14th century and the Great Influenza outbreak after WW I. Today, there is a dark side of globalization in which endemic diseases such as Avian Flu can, due to globalization, become endemic worldwide.

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