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World AIDS Day December 1
Gaëtan Dugas was famous as the “patient zero”
Today, the United Nations(UN) commemorates World AIDS Day and recalls that it is also a pandemic that should receive attention despite the dramatic outbreak of COVID-19.
Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030, as well as a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and a spiraling social and economic crisis. _UN
In 2020, during the first year of COVID-19, there were 1.5 million HIV infections and 680,000 deaths from it.
Progress in the treatment of AIDS has been very significant in recent years. Legendary figures like Freddy Mercury today would enjoy excellent health and quality of life if they had received current treatments against this virus.
In the history of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it is impossible to stop talking about the famous “patient zero.”
A Canadian named Gaëtan Dugas, a homosexual flight attendant with multiple sexual partners, admitted having had more than two thousand sexual partners.
Dugas helped spread the disease around the world quickly, which also made it possible to recognize that the virus was highly contagious and that measures such as the use of condoms could therefore reduce the rate of…
