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Overview: Update
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This website contains detailed information about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, some of which is of a sexual nature. Please be aware some of the content on this site might not be appropriate for all ages.
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is an infection transmitted through blood and other body fluids. It attacks the body's immune system and ultimately leads to AIDS, a disease in which immune function fails and a person develops opportunistic infections that cause death. We talked to the experts on HIV and AIDS, at leading research institutions such as the University of North Carolina and Duke University, and we also went to the state's HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch, international research organizations, and community-based agencies across North Carolina to learn how the disease affects North Carolinians.
Who is at greatest risk and why? See how what was once just a big-city problem now also affects small town and rural areas. Who pays for treating and preventing HIV? We'll talk about what scientists are doing to stop it. And see where people living with HIV find the strength to fight it every day.
Doctors reported the first case of AIDS in North Carolina in 1983, but epidemiologists believe the disease was here as early as 1980. In the years immediately following, the disease affected primarily white, gay men. But not anymore. This is the new age of HIV and AIDS.
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