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	<title>AIDS Work</title>
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	<description>Providing help for people with HIV and AIDS</description>
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		<title>Laboratory Diagnosis of HIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diagnosis is defined as the demonstration of HIV 1 and HIV 2 antibodies or antigens in blood or body fluids. Antibody detection tests are the most commonly used tests. Test to detect the virus are available but have largely remained research tools and confined to monitoring progress of infection of response to therapy rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidswork.org/laboratory-diagnosis-of-hiv/</link>
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		<title>Chronology of HIV/AIDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a brief chronology of HIV/AIDS: 1930 &#8211; Some time between 1910 and 1950 with 1930 being the most likely date HIV-1 M appears as a unique new retrovirus. There is still much debate as to how HIV first appeared in human hosts. 1959 &#8211; The oldest confirmed case of HIV is discovered when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidswork.org/chronology-of-hiv-aids/</link>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. &#8220;Acquired&#8221; means not innate nor inherited but transmitted from person to person; &#8220;Immune&#8221; is the body&#8217;s system of defense; &#8220;Deficiency&#8221; means not working to the appropriate degree; and &#8220;Syndrome&#8221; means a group of sings and symptoms. AIDS is the advanced stage of HIV infection. It is a disabling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidswork.org/hiv-aids-disease/</link>
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		<title>Brief History of AIDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AIDS describes itself &#8211; it is not a disease as such, rather a condition of various signs and symptoms (a syndrome) due to an immune deficiency that is not inherited, therefore it must be acquired from somewhere. AIDS was first noticed in 1981 from reports of previously rare diseases appearing in unexpectedly high numbers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidswork.org/brief-history-of-aids/</link>
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		<title>What is HIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS. Two types of HIV are currently known: HIV-1 and HIV-2. World wide, the predominant virus is HIV-1. Although cases of HIV-2 have been reported in several parts of virus are transmitted by sexual contact, through blood, and from mother-to-child during pregnancy, delivery, or breast feeding. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidswork.org/what-is-hiv/</link>
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