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USIS Washington File - November 28, 2008
According to estimates from the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, around 30.8 million adults and 2 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2007.
On December 1, at 8 a.m. EST (13:00 GMT), in commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dr. Amita Gupta will discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS, the fight against it and the treatments for it, paying particular attention to anti-retroviral treatment and the management of opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis, that plague those infected with AIDS.
Dr. Gupta is the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Clinical Global Health Education and an assistant professor of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins. Born to Indian parents, she grew up in the United States, England and France. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and primary care and internal medicine training at San Francisco General Hospital - University of California at San Francisco. She was an epidemic intelligence service officer focusing on global foodborne and diarrheal disease epidemiology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before completing an infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
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