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KMID : 0365219940310010007
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1994 Volume.31 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.19
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AIDS and It's Prevention Strategy
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Abstract
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AIDS has been prevailing throughout the world since it was identified as a new disease in 1981. The number of AIDS patients reported to WHO showed over 71 times increase in eight years: 11.917 patients from 51 nations in 1985 to 851, 628 patients
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187 nations by end of 1993.
In Korea following the first AIDS patient in 1985, 19 patients and 337 infected persons had been identified by the end of March 1994. Among 19 patients 16 cases had died of AIDS already. In order to establish effective control measure for HIV
epidemic
at national level, epidemiologic characteristics of global as well as Korean AIDS epidemics are reviewed and discussed; data on current status of AIDS occurrence, newly developed and evaluated preventive measures, and changing pattern of HIV
transmission are presented and discussed in detail.
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KEYWORD
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