Rare Diseases & Orphan Drug

AIDS

HIV infection does not cause AIDS right away, and the details of how it does, as well as whether or not all HIV-positive patients will develop the disease, are still up for debate. Nonetheless, mounting evidence points to the virus's development in CD4 T cells and the immunological response to it as important puzzle pieces in the AIDS puzzle. HIV is a global epidemic, and despite significant progress in understanding the disease's pathophysiology and epidemiology, the number of infected persons continues to rise at an alarming rate, indicating that more people will die from AIDS in the coming years. According to WHO estimates, 16.3 million people have died as a result of AIDS since the pandemic began, and there are currently over 34.3 million people living with HIV infection, the majority of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately 7% of young adults are afflicted. Over 25% of people in several nations in this region, such as Zimbabwe and Botswana, are infected.