Accoridng to wikiepdia the AIDS virus is now a pandemic.
In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and it killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children.
Over three-quarters of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital.
Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century.
AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified by American and French scientists in the early 1980s. Source:Wikipedia. Learn more. Aids
