Staggering AIDS Report From U.N. – It appears we are living through the the greatest single assault on humankind that we’ve ever known
. Quite sobering.
In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where experts hoped the epidemic had reached a “natural limit” beyond which it could not grow, HIV is infecting as many as 39 percent of adults in some countries, according to UNAIDS, the international agency charged with monitoring the disease.
If there is a limit on HIV’s ability to spread, officials are uncertain what it is, said Neff Walker, a senior epidemiologist at UNAIDS.