Oral Manifestations of HIV
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Emerging and re-emerging diseases are having a profound worldwide impact on society and on the delivery of medical and oral health care. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic, caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dramatically illustrates the awesome transmission capabilities of disease. Spread by blood borne and sexual contact HIV has infected over 36.1 million people in the world and according to joint UNAIDS (United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) and WHO, 1600 new cases are coming up every day [1]. By the end of 2005, an estimated 40.3 million people were alive with HIV infection in the world, the vast majority of who were resident in low-income countries [2].
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