In part because there's no treatment, the number of people afflicted is hard to estimate.
Participants are getting a standard treatment or a new treatment that a number of experts have looked at and decided is reasonable.
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His research began after a patient was identified in Berlin who stopped his drug treatment on a number of occasions and then ceased it altogether, to find his immune system was continuing to suppress the virus on its own.
Since FY 2008, PEPFAR has increased the number of people receiving treatment by 124%, the number of pregnant women receiving antiretroviral prophylaxis to prevent mother-to-child transmission by 72% and the number of individuals receiving HIV testing and counseling by 87%.
Lead researcher Professor Geoffrey Sher said the test may allow doctors to cut the number of embryos they use in IVF treatment - and thus reduce the number of multiple births.
Similarly, they are also encouraged to adhere to treatment guidelines for a number of key conditions.
Early treatment may limit the number of unassailable HIV hideouts that are formed.
"As there is currently no cure, and a limited number of treatment options for people with Alzheimer's disease, every promising treatment avenue deserves to be followed up, " she said.
The chancellor Denis Healey's contemptuous treatment of his Liberal opposite number and ostensible colleague, John Pardoe, has become the stuff of political legend.
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According to a study released in July by the Treatment Advocacy Center, the number of state hospital beds in America per capita has plummeted to 1850 levels, or 14.1 beds per 100, 000 people.
The number kept waiting more than 18 months for treatment has been cut from 155 to zero since the election, but the number waiting for 12-18 months has more than doubled to 68, 900.
Increasing the number of people on treatment is being advocated as an HIV prevention method in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
The report by the NHS Information Centre looks at the number of deaths following treatment, known as the Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator (SHMI).
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The provisions put in place, which also include an eight-fold increase in the number of prisoners receiving treatment for hepatitis C, have led to falling rates of infection.
The key to reducing the number of offences is treatment.
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An interim report by the Department of Health into Winterbourne View said commissioning across health and care services should aim to reduce the number of people in treatment and assessment centres.
"I think that the American people realize that I'm very different in many ways, whether it be spending, or the conduct of the war in Iraq, or climate change, or treatment of prisoners, or a number of other issues, " he said.
We'll never know if another episode or type of treatment would have saved Mindy McCready, but we do know that, for a significant number of Americans, business-as-usual addiction treatment isn't working.
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There has also been an increase in the number of people needing hospital treatment for stings.
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However, NHS Lothian said the number expected to be offered treatment outside Scotland would probably be low.
He heard from NHS Lothian's senior management team about the steps taken to reduce the number of people waiting for treatment.
When Labour was elected in 1997, one of its key pledges was to cut the number of patients waiting for treatment by 100, 000.
The Scottish government said the number of people sent for treatment at Bath had fallen since a high of 34 under the previous Labour-Liberal Democrat Scottish Executive.
It is thanks to this co-operation, says DC Sadler, that month on month, almost without exception, the number of people receiving drugs treatment across the North East has gradually increased.
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Labour claim that two of the five have already been broken as rising inflation has undermined the planned real term spending increase and the number waiting 18 weeks for treatment is up.
The daftest thing of all about Mr Dobson's pledge is that it is not in fact the number of people waiting for treatment that matters: it is how long they have to wait.
In a statement to mark World Aids Day, Oxfam said the pledge made by governments in June to increase the number of people receiving HIV treatment to 15 million by 2015 would be worthless without additional resources.
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In the last parliament Labour promised to cut the total number of people waiting for hospital treatment.
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