Author: Isabella Bartlett

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have claimed 44.1 million lives since it became a recognized pandemic in 1983 (Sharp and Hahn 2011; Swinkels et al. 2026). Comparing this to smallpox, which had an estimated mortality of 500 million over the span of 3000-4000 years, AIDs is killing at a much higher…