Thanks to an intensive public health education initiative around the world, we are now aware that AIDS is the result of the compromise of the immune system by the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. While many of us, especially in the developed world, are aware of the methods of transmission of HIV, it is estimated that there are 36 million people infected with the virus today, 25 million of them living in Africa alone.

It is the objective of the European Clinical Trials Platform to support the development of new interventions against human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), malaria and tuberculosis for use in developing countries and to constitute a coherent and comprehensive European initiative that will be the natural partner of already relevant networks and initiatives like the AMVTN.

The ever-increasing impact of the human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) on the population of Burma/Myanmar; and, despite the beginning of an increased awareness, the still insufficient response of the Myanmar authorities to the progressively more critical HIV/AIDS situation in Myanmar.

Includes all human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals who have any of the 28 clinical conditions listed in the European AIDS surveillance case definition.

- IgM antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) positive

Q-3 Mr. Breitkreuz (Yorkton Melville) How many prisoners incarcerated in federal penitentiaries are infected with Hepatitis C, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) or have AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), (a) how is this information determined to be accurate, (b) if a prisoner becomes infected with Hepatitis C, HIV or AIDS while under the care of the federal government will the infected prisoner be able to make a claim for injury, damages or suffering claiming that the government failed to properly protect him or her from the infecting act, (c) what specifically is the government doing t ...[+++]o protect federal prisoners and guards from becoming infected with Hepatitis C, HIV or AIDS, and (d) specifically how much has it cost the federal government, so far and annually, to implement each of the measures the government uses to prevent the spread of Hepatitis C, HIV and AIDS and to protect prisoners and guards from becoming infected with Hepatitis C, HIV and AIDS?