Since the Early 1990s,the Decline in the Death Rate from AIDS

question 25

Multiple Choice

Since the early 1990s,the decline in the death rate from AIDS has slowed.Why?

• A) drug treatments designed to treat AIDS can cause other fatal diseases
• B) a change in the definition of AIDS
• C) the incidence of homosexuality has started to increase again
• D) HIV has developed resistance to many of the drug treatments

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