Rotary AIDS day event turns spotlight on world’s deadliest infectious disease
The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the worst ever, has claimed several thousand lives and generated worldwide concern. But its impact pales in comparison to that of AIDS, which, despite advances in treatment, still kills more than a million people a year, the majority of them in Africa.
«Even with the Ebola outbreak at its worst expected levels, it’s never going to reach what we’ve seen with the HIV/AIDS epidemic,» said Dr. Timothy B. Erickson, director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, speaking at Rotary’s World AIDS Day event in Evanston on 1…
