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8.8. HIVNET/AEGIS Gateway. Why is AEGIS needed?




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This article is from the AIDS FAQ, by Dan Greening with numerous contributions by others.

8.8. HIVNET/AEGIS Gateway. Why is AEGIS needed?

- As of July, 1994, there have been 3,430 persons with AIDS in
Orange County, 72,433 in California, and 388,365 in the
United States. A quarter million Americans have been lost
to this epidemic.

- In some parts of the world, new infections have soared
ten-fold in four years.

- 17 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, the human
immunodeficiency virus. By the year 2,000, between 40 and
110 million people will be HIV-infected.

- The 'magic bullet' to cure or prevent HIV disease has not
been found, and AIDS cannot yet be considered a manageable
chronic disease.

- People with or affected by HIV/AIDS often are isolated by
cultural, geographic, and economic barriers.

In these times, the question is how must we fight AIDS and
relieve the human suffering it causes? We believe the answer
will be found in the transformation of information into
knowledge. For that to happen, information must be freely
available, easily accessed, and widely disseminated. It must be
used.

AEGIS employs the latest telecommunications tools to make
information about HIV/AIDS available to anyone who needs it. In
this way, we seek to relieve some of the suffering and isolation
caused by HIV/AIDS, and foster the understanding and knowledge
that will lead to better care, prevention, and a cure.

 

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