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World AIDS Day: HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment
11-30-2007 · EurekAlert!On December 1, PLoS Medicine is publishing a collection of research articles and commentary, as well as an editorial to mark World AIDS Day 2007. In this release: Men who have sex with men face high AIDS risk in developing countries; Women disclose their HIV status at three key times around childbirth; Unnoticed mutation in AIDS virus can cause drug resistance; and HIV confirmatory test can also estimate recent infections.
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