of a million Americans had died due to AIDS, but these figures were later revised and the estimate of people living with the disease came down to around 650,000 to 900,000 people. World Health Organization (WHO) however has been consistently raising its estimate of persons with HIV/AIDS in the world. It is already around 20 million and is expected to reach 40 million in coming few years. According to United Nations by the end of 1997, there were around 30.6 million people infected with HIV around the globe.
             HIV/AIDS virus is an extremely dangerous and mysterious predator, which has infected some 22.6 million people around the world, and the number is continuously rising as no cure is in sight and no breakthrough in this field has yet been achieved. The disease that was discovered in 1981 posed a major threat to human population when within first five years of its discovery, AIDS had attacked 24,000 Americans and it was believed that within a short period of time this disease would reach epidemical stage. That period has expired and we are encountering a situation, which two decades ago was simply impossible to even imagine. While it affects thousands of Americans today, the diseases have reached alarming stages mostly in African and central Asian countries with some eastern European countries joining the victim list.
             According to National Multiple Sclerosis Society's 1993 data, it was estimated that some 20,800 people in the work force were suffering from active AIDS while 44,800 people were found infected with HIV virus. With AIDS virus affecting millions of people around the world and with more than hundreds of thousands of men and women in United States alone, it is only obvious that this disease is now influencing every aspect of our lives. A new report released by the UN AIDS agency and the World Health Organization highlights the rapid spread of the disease in these mostly impoverished regions of the world. "The ...