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AIDS/HIV 30 Years Later: What We Know Now

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Thirty years have passed since doctors first identified HIV and AIDS, and still the fight against the deadly global epidemic continues, despite medical advances.

Tuesday marked World AIDS Day and UNICEF is warning that among youth in Asia the number of those dying from AIDS has more than doubled since 2005.

Dr. Jim Small, a pathologist at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver and a member of the Christian Medical Association, helped diagnose the first AIDS patient in Utah in the 1980s.

"It's something that we pretty much know how to prevent transmission of, but getting people to stop sleeping with people they're not married to and getting people to stop using intravenous drugs is easier said than done," Small said.

Small shared with CBN News what scientists and doctors have learned about the deadly disease since then. Click play to watch.

 

 

 

 


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