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Hitler's sexuality In 1943, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) published "A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend". In the course of the 281-page report, the authors describe Hitler as "possibly even a homosexual streak in him" Carl Jung going farther classifying Hitler as having "characteristics of a man with...
Hitler's Terror Weapons Hitler's Terror Weapons: From V-1 to Vimana (ISBN 0-85052-896-8) is Geoffrey Brooks' latest work, first published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by Leo Cooper, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, printed in the UK by CPI UK.
Hitler, Beast of Berlin Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939) was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of the World War II era, based on the novel Goose Step by Shepard Traube. The film was the first production of Producers Releasing Corporation.
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932-1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship is a 3,400-page book series edited by Max Domarus. It presents the day-to-day activities of Adolf Hitler, between 1932 and 1945, with the text of significant speeches.
Hitler: The Rise of Evil Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a TV movie that aired in two parts in May 2003 on CBS, and was produced by Alliance Atlantis. The film explores Adolf Hitler's rise to power during the years prior to World War II and focuses closely on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted German society after World War I made that ascent possible.
Hitlerjunge HitlerJunge, translated as “Hitler Youth”, was a collective term used in the 1920s and 1930s to describe any member of the Hitler Youth. The term only applied to juvenile Hitler Youth members, whereas adult members were referred to as Hitlerjugendführer.
Hitlers Bombe Hitlers Bombe (Hitler's Bomb) is a nonfiction book by the German historian Rainer Karlsch published in March 2005 which claims to have evidence concerning the development and testing of a possible "nuclear weapon" by Nazi Germany in 1945. The "weapon" in question is not alleged to be a standard nuclear weapon powered by nuclear fission but something closer to either a radiological weapon (a so-called "dirty bomb") or a hybrid-nuclear fusion weapon.
Hitlers' Cross Hitlers' Cross (sic), usually called Hitler's Cross (now renamed to Cross Café), was the name of a Hitler-themed restaurant at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, a satellite city of Mumbai. The restaurant's name, "Hitlers' Cross", referred to the swastika and the Cross of Honor of the German Mother, symbols of the Nazi regime, and the restaurant's interior was decorated in red, white and black - the colours of the Nazi party.
Hitmaker Hitmaker (originally AM3) is a former second-party developer for Sega Corporation. The development house has produced some popular arcade game and video games, including Virtual On, Crazy Taxi, Astro Boy: Omega Factor (along with Treasure), and Virtua Tennis.
Hitman (computer game series) Hitman is a video game franchise available on PC and several video game consoles. It revolves around a man known as Agent 47 (usually simply referred to as 47), an assassin for hire, whose skills place him in high demand for jobs.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is the second game in the Hitman video game series. It was released in 2002 and was followed by the third game in the series, Hitman: Contracts in 2004, and Hitman: Blood Money in 2006.
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows is a documentary film which follows World Wrestling Federation superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF, from his WWF Championship victory over The Undertaker at SummerSlam to his final match with the company at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997.
Hitmonchan are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Hitmonchan in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Hitmontop is one of the fictional species of Pokémon from the Pokémon Franchise - a series of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. It is number 237 in the National Pokédex.
Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl has produced a variety of work as a filmmaker and author in the field of essayist documentary filmography and post-colonial critique, both as a producer and a theorist. Her works are situated on an interface between the cinema and fine arts, and between theory and practice.
Hitoe Arakaki Hitoe Arakaki (Arakaki Hitoe, 新垣仁絵, born April 7, 1981) was the oldest member of the JPop group, SPEED, which disbanded in 2000. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, and is also known purely by her first name, HITOE.
Hitomi Kanehara (born August 8,1983) is an award-winning Japanese novelist. A high school drop-out since the age of 15, Kanehara pursued her passion for writing with the support of her father, Mizuhito Kanehara, a literary professor and translator of children's literature.
Hitomi Soga Hitomi Soga (曽我ひとみ: Soga Hitomi, born May 17, 1959) is a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1978. She married Charles Robert Jenkins, an American, in North Korea and currently lives in Japan.
Hitosa Hitosa is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Arsi Zone, Hitosa is bordered on the south by Digeluna Tijo, on the southwest by Tiyo, on the west by Ziway Dugda, on the northwest by the Misraq Shewa Zone, on the northeast by Dodotana Sire, and on the east by Tena.
Hitoshi Ashida Hitoshi Ashida (芦田均 Ashida Hitoshi, November 15, 1887 – June 20, 1959) was a Japanese politician who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Japan from March 10 to October 15, 1948. He was a prominent figure in the immediate postwar political landscape, but was forced to resign his leadership responsibilities after a corruption scandal targeting two of his cabinet ministers.
Hitoshi Ashinano is a mangaka born on April 25,1963 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. His works include his debut Yokohama Kaidashi KikĹŤ (for which he won the Afternoon Four Seasons Award), a series which ran for almost twelve years in Kodansha's monthly anthology Afternoon, and Position, which ran in the now defunct Afternoon Season ZĹŤkan and later in Bessatsu Morning.
Hitoshi Igarashi was the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of "the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who are aware of its content...
Hitoshi Matsumoto Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志, Matsumoto Hitoshi, born September 8, 1963) is a Japanese comedian best known as half of the extremely popular owarai duo Downtown and as an individual for directing the short film "Sasuke".
HitQuarters HitQuarters is an international music industry website for unsigned artists as well as industry professionals including A&Rs, managers, publishers and producers. The website features the World Top 100 A&R Chart, the HitTracker industry contact directory, artist pages, interviews and articles and demo reviews from an A&R panel.
Hitratunnel The Hitratunnel is a subsea road tunnel connecting Hitra municipality (on Hitra island) in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway to the mainland. The tunnel is 5610 metres long and reaches a depth of 264 metres below sea level.
Hits (Pulp album) Hits is a greatest hits collection of popular UK indie-pop band Pulp, released in Britain in November 2002. As a greatest hits, it only covers Pulp's singles from the early-90s when they started becoming popular, although the band had existed in one form or another since 1979.
Hits out of Hell Hits Out of Hell is a 1984 compilation album that's sung by Meat Loaf. It includes 7 Jim Steinman songs and its original release featured the semi-hit, "Modern Girl" off Bad Attitude , which came out at about the same time.
Hits U Missed Hits U Missed is a 2004 compilation album from Hip Hop artist Masta Ace, released through his self-owned M3 record label. The compilation features a number of singles released during his MIA period between 1996 and 2000, as well as a few B-Side songs from past singles.
Hits25 Hits25 is the Greatest Hits album by George Michael, being released to coincide with his tour. This is Michael's second compilation album, his first being 1998's Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael.
Hits: Greatest and Others Hits: Greatest and Others was a 1973 compilation Vanguard put together at the end of Joan Baez' association with their label. In addition to her hit cover of The Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, songs by the Beatles and Kris Kristofferson were also included.
Hitscan In first-person shooter games, a hitscan weapon is one that, when fired, instantly hits whatever the weapon is pointing at. This is in contrast to projectile weapons, which fire projectiles that take time to travel.
Hitsuzendo Hitsuzendo, or the Art of the Brush, is a method of achieving samaai (unification of individual with the highest reality). Hitsuzendo refers specifically to a school of Japanese Zen calligraphy where the rating system of modern calligraphy (well-proportioned and pleasing to the eye) is foreign, more that the calligraphy of Hitsuzendo must breathe with the vitality of eternal experience.
Hittin' the Note Hittin' the Note is a 2003 album by the American rock music group The Allman Brothers Band; it was their first studio album to include lead slide guitar player Derek Trucks and bass player Oteil Burbridge and marked the full-time return of guitar player Warren Haynes to the band. The Album is notable for the songs Firing Line, Who to Believe and Maydelle
Hitting for the cycle In baseball, a player hits for the cycle when he hits a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game, though not necessarily in that order. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a natural cycle.
Hitting set The hitting set problem is an NP-complete problem in set theory. Informally, we are given a collection of subsets S of a universe T and asked to find a subset H of T that intersects ("hits") every set in S.
Hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. Games in which a player does not have any official at bats due to walks, or sacrifice bunts, or being hit by a pitch, are ignored (neither break the streak nor add to the streak).
Hitting time In the study of stochastic processes in mathematics, a hitting time (or first hit time) is a particular instance of a stopping time, the first time at which a given process "hits" a given subset of the state space. Exit times and return times are also examples of hitting times.
Hittite language Hittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who once created an empire centered on ancient Hattusas (modern BoÄźazkale) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). The language was spoken from approximately 1600 BC (and probably before) to 1100 BC.
Hittite laws The Hittite laws have been preserved on a number of Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa (CTH 291-292, listing 200 laws). Copies have been found written in Old Hittite as well as in Middle and Late Hittite, indicating that they had validity throughout the duration of the Hittite Empire (ca.
Hittite mythology Heavily influenced by Mesopotamian mythology, the religion of the Hittites and Luwians retains noticeable Indo-European elements, for example Tarhun the god of thunder, and his conflict with the serpent Illuyanka.
Hittite Middle Kingdom The Middle Kingdom of the Hittites is a period of the 15th century BCE with very sparse surviving records. It is not so much an independent phase of Hittite history as a period of transition between the Old and New Kingdoms.
Hittite-Hayasa War Hittite-Hayasa War's "Mursil, the Hittite Emperor," said Cavaignac, speaking of that period, "was busy in the wars waged against Azzi or Hayasa, which were as bitter as those waged against Arzava (Western Cilicia). About the beginning of Subbiluliuma's reign, that country (Hayasa-Azzi) was subject to Hittite influence, but won its freedom later on.
Hittites The Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URU) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire was at its height, encompassing central Anatolia, north-western Syria as far as Ugarit, and upper Mesopotamia.
HitTailing HiTailing is the practice of writing to lengthen your Long Tail of search, by writing to produce more "hits" in the tail. The concept is to mine your website log files for keywords that are leading to your site, but not performing well.
Hitzig v. Canada Hitzig v. Canada Warren Hitzig, Alison Myrden is a 2003 civil case in which Warren Hitzig, along with seven medical marijuana users (Alison Myrden, Stephen J Vandekemp, Marco Renda, Marylynne Chamney, Catherine Devries, Jari Dvorak and Debbie Stultz-Giffen.
HiT TV HiT TV is a local Kazakh television station that has been in operation since 7am October 21 2003. It is a dedicated youth oriented music television network showing all the latest music videos from Kazakhstan & abroad.
Hive (game) Hive is a beehive-themed tile-based tabletop game, designed by John Yianni and published in 2001 by Gen Four Two. Players try to capture the opponent's queen bee, while avoiding the capture of their own queen.
Hive (record producer) Hive (born December, 1974) is a San Francisco-based DJ, producer, and record label owner who has contributed to dozens of recordings in the drum and bass musical genre. His Violence Recordings label is regarded as the premiere drum-and-bass label in the United States.
Hive city A hive city is a massive city often featured in science fiction, with a population concentration of over a million inhabitants a cubic mile. The city can come in many forms, of towering arcologies and countless layers, even forming a many mile thick urban block, in some cases covering the entire planet as an ecumenopolis.
Hivites The Hivites were one of the sons of Canaan according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. We know of the Hivites primarily as one of seven main people groups living in the land of Canaan upon the arrival of the Hebrews in the book of Joshua.
Hiwassee River The Hiwassee River has its headwaters on the north slope of Rocky Mountain in Towns County in northern Georgia (as the Hiawassee River) and flows northward into North Carolina (there assuming its more common moniker Hiwassee) before turning westward into Tennessee, flowing into the Tennessee River a few miles west of State Route 58 in Meigs County, Tennessee.
Hiwatt Hiwatt is a British company that manufactures amplifiers for electric guitars and bass guitars. Starting in the late 1960s, together with Marshall, and Vox this company forms an image of so-called "British" guitar amplifier sound.
Hiway House Hiway House was a motor hotel chain founded in 1956 at Phoenix, Arizona by the late Del Webb, a construction magnate who owned the New York Yankees baseball team and later created the Sun City retirement communities. A remnant of the old Hiway House chain is still in operation at Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hiweed Linux Hiweed Linux is a distribution of GNU/Linux based on Ubuntu. It is tailored for Chinese speakers and includes preconfigured Chinese applications such as simplified Chinese input methods, Chinese dictionaries, and Chinese truetype fonts.
Hiwi al-Balkhi Hiwi al-Balkhi (9th century) (Hebrew: חיוי אל-בלכי, also Hiwwi or Chivi) was an exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century, born at Balkh, Persia. It is not entirely clear whether Hiwi was a Jew, as suggested by , or whether he was perhaps a member of a gnostic Christian sect .
Hiwi people The Hiwi call themselves the “people of the savannah” for the vast flatlands they inhabit between the Meta and Vichada rivers in Colombia. In Venezuela, the Hiwi live in the states of Apure, Guarico, Bolivar, and Amazonas.
Hixkaryana language Hixkaryana is one of the Carib languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá river, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is one of a few known natural languages that normally use Object Verb Subject word order, and may have been the first such language to be described (by linguist Desmond C.
Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts The Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is the fine and performing arts college at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The college, initially known as the College of Fine and Performing Arts, was created on July 1, 1993.
Hiyama coupling In organic chemistry, a Hiyama coupling is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organosilanes with organic halides or triflates. Hiyama couplings were first reported by Yasuo Hatanaka and Tamejiro Hiyama in 1988.
Hiyayakko In Japanese cuisine, Hiyayakko (冷奴) is a tofu block served cold. The toppings put on the tofu vary between households and restaurants, but a standard combination is sliced negi (Welsh onion) with katsuobushi (dried skipjack tuna flakes) and soy sauce.
Hiyoshi, Kagoshima Hiyoshi (日吉町; -chou) was a town located in Hioki District, Kagoshima, Japan. On May 1, 2005 the town merged with three other towns forming the city of Hioki and no longer exists as an independent municpality.
Hizakurige Hizakurige (膝栗毛), or Shank's Mare as the English translation is called, is a picaresque comic novel (kokkei-bon) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九 , 1765-1831), about the misadventures of two travelers on the Tōkaidō, the main road between Kyoto and Edo during the Edo Period.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic: حزب التحرير; English: Party of Liberation) is a Sunni Islamist political party whose goal is to re-establish a pan-Islamic caliphate. Sheikh Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, a judge from Jerusalem, founded the organization in 1953.
Hizb-an-Nusra Hizb-an-Nusra (English: Party of Support) is an Islamic terrorist organization that has operated in Uzbekistan since 1999. Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international terrorist organization, created Hizb-an-Nusra in Tashkent out of dissatisfaction with Hizb ut-Tahrir's inability to overthrow the Government of Uzbekistan.
Hizbul Mujahideen The Hizbul Mujahideen (حزب المجاھدین) (created 1989) is a group of Islamic terrorists based in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), and active in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It prefers to call itself a group of 'freedom fighters' and is headquartered at Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Hizbul Shabaab Hizbul Shabaab (Arabic, "The Party of Youth")Washington’s Self-Defeating Somalia Policy Matt Bryden, CSIS Policy Forum or Al-Shabaab (Arabic, "The Youth") is the militant youth movement wing of the Islamic Courts Union, and described as an extremist splinter group. However, the term "Shabaab" is common in the Islamic world for youth groups, and Hizbul Shabaab should not be confused with other more peaceful endeavors.
Hizen Province Hizen (肥前国; Hizen no kuni) was an old province of Japan which bordered on Chikuzen and Chikugo. Today the area is split into Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, although it did not include the regions of Tsushima and Iki that are now in Nagasaki.
HIAA The Health Insurance Association of America is an industry trade group organized by private sector insurers. They were instrumental in defeating what opponents of national health care in the United States call socialized medicine or what advocates of a plan called Managed Competition in health insurance.
HIAS HIAS, also known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is America’s oldest international migration and refugee resettlement agency. Dedicated to assisting persecuted and oppressed people worldwide and delivering them to countries of safe haven, HIAS has rescued more than 4.
HICAS HICAS (High Capacity Actively Controlled Suspension) is Nissan's rear wheel steering system found on cars ranging from the more recent Skyline and Z iterations to smaller models like the 240SX/180SX. It is also found on models from Nissan's Infiniti division, such as the Q45 and the M45/M35.
HIFK HIFK (Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK, originally Idrottsförening Kamraterna i Helsingfors) is a sports association from Helsinki, Finland. HIFK has activities in many sports, including ice hockey, football, bandy, floorball, handball, athletics and bowling.
HIH Insurance HIH Insurance was Australia's second largest insurance company, which was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The demise of HIH is considered be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to $5.
HIJOS HIJOS is an acronym for Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (English: Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence), and is the name of organizations of the children of people who were "disappeared" in Argentina and in Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in CordĂłba and La Plata.
HIL bus HIL (Human Interface Loop), or HP-HIL, is the name of a computer bus used by Hewlett-Packard to connect keyboards, mice, trackballs, digitizers, tablets, barcode readers, rotary knobs, touchscreens, and other human interface peripherals to their HP 9000 workstations. The bus was in use until the mid 1990s, when HP substituted PS/2 technology for HIL.
HIMTI Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Informatika (HIMTI) was founded on September 14, 1992 at Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia by Toto Widyanto (former chairman of computer science major). The idea was to build a place for college students majoring in computer science so that they could give a donation to IT's development in Indonesia and also train their leadership management skills with regards to organization.
HINF Health Information Science (HINF) is a school of study at the University of Victoria dealing with the instruction of Health Informatics. Undergraduate, Masters, and Doctorate degrees are available from the school.
HIP (architecture) HIP is an acronym for "Hypothetic computer", which was developed for the purpose of the book Arhitektura računalniških sistemov by Dušan Kodek. It is a modern load/store RISC central processing unit with 32 general-purpose registers.
HIPERMAN HIPERMAN stands for High Performance Radio Metropolitan Area Network and is a standard created by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN) group to provide a wireless network communication in the 2 - 11 GHz bands across Europe and other countries which follow the ETSI standard. HIPERMAN is a European alternative to WiMAX (or the IEEE 802.
HIPPI HIPPI (HIgh Performance Parallel Interface) is a computer bus for the attachment of high speed storage devices to supercomputers. It was popular in the late 1980s and into the mid-to-late 1990s, but has since been replaced by ever-faster standard interfaces like SCSI and Fibre Channel.
HIS-selective medium HIS-selective medium is a type cell culture medium that lacks the amino acid histidine. It can be used with bacteria reliant on the expression of a gene encoding proteins involved in histidine expression in order to survive (Joung et al.
HIS3 The HIS3 gene, found in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, encodes a protein called Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase which catalyses the sixth step in histidine biosynthesis (ref: http://db.yeastgenome.
HISA The CEN Standard Architecture for Healthcare Information Systems (ENV 12967), Health Informatics Service Architecture or HISA is a standard aimed at enabling the development modular open systems to support healthcare. The HISA standard builds on the work of RICHE, NUCLEUS, EDITH and HANSA in this field.
HIStory (song) "History" is a song on Michael Jackson's album, HIStory. At the beginning of the song there are various quotes from the history of America including one from Michael Jackson from when he was in the Jackson 5.
HIT Entertainment HIT Entertainment PLC was established in 1989, and was originally the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions called Henson International Television. However, following the death of Jim Henson in 1990, the business was sold to several members of the company's management and renamed HIT Entertainment to prevent any future confusion between the two companies.
HITS algorithm Hypertext Induced Topic Selection (HITS) is an link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages for their authority and hub values. Authority value estimates the value of the content of the page; hub value estimates the value of its links to other pages.
HIV and AIDS misconceptions Because the worldwide spread of AIDS has had such a great effect on millions of people worldwide, a number of misconceptions have arisen surrounding the disease. Below is a list and explanation of some common misconceptions and their rebuttals.
HIV associated nephropathy Serious renal complication of advanced HIV infection and AIDS leading to chronic and eventually end stage renal failure(ESRF). HIVAN is caused by direct infection of the renal cells with the HIV-1 virus and leads to renal damage through the viral gene products.
HIV blood screening The risk of transmitting HIV infection to blood transfusion recipients has been drastically reduced by improved donor selection and sensitive serologic screening assays in many countries. In 2000, WHO estimated that 1 million new HIV infections around the world resulted from inadequate blood screening.
HIV exceptionalism HIV exceptionalism is the term given to the trend to treat AIDS differently from other sexually transmitted, infectious, lethal diseases in law and policy. Whereas the traditional public health approach has been to employ practices like forced testing, compulsory treatment and isolation, these methods have been widely rejected as inappropriate for AIDS.
HIV set point The HIV set point is the viral load of a person infected with HIV, which stabilizes after a period of acute HIV infection. The set point is reached after the immune system has developed HIV antibodies and begins to attempt to fight the virus.
HIV structure and genome The genome and proteins of HIV have been the subject of extensive research since the discovery of the virus in 1983. It is a well known fact that no two HIV genomes are the same, not even from the same person, causing some to speculate that HIV is a "quasispecies" of a virus.
HIV trial in Libya The HIV trial in the country of Libya concerns the trials and appeals of six foreign medical workers convicted of conspiring to deliberately inject 426 children with the HIV virus in 1998, causing an epidemic at El-Fath Children's Hospital in Benghazi.
HIV tropism HIV tropism refers to the cell type that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects and replicates in. HIV can infect a variety of cells such as CD4+ helper T-cells and macrophages that express the CD4 molecule on its surface.
HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan) Japan's HIV-tainted blood scandal, known in Japanese as 薬害エイズ事件 (yakugai eizu jiken), refers to an event in the 1980s when between one and two thousand Japanese patients with haemophilia contracted HIV via tainted blood products. Controversy centers on the continued use of non-heat-treated blood products after the development of heat-treatments that prevent the spread of infection.
HIV/AIDS in Africa The HIV/AIDS epidemics spreading through the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are highly varied. Although it is not correct to speak of a single African epidemic, Africa is without doubt the region most affected by the virus.
HIV/AIDS in Brazil The first AIDS case was identified in Brazil in 1982. Infection rates climbed exponentially throughout the 1980s, and in 1990 the World Bank famously predicted 1,200,000 cases by 2000, approximately double the actual number reported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and most international organizations.
HIV/AIDS in India India has had a sharp increase in the estimated number of HIV infections, from the first reported case in 1986 in Madras (a commercial sex worker), then escalating to several thousand in the early 1990s to around five million in 2003. National estimates have come under scrutiny and are generally considered to be underestimations of the true absolute number of persons living with HIV in India.
HIV/AIDS in Myanmar HIV/AIDS in Myanmar, recognised as a disease of concern by the Ministry of Health, is most prevalent among sex workers and intravenous drug users. In 2005, the estimated adult HIV prevalence rate in Myanmar was 1.
HIV/AIDS in Pakistan Though, HIV is not a dominant epidemic in the adult population of Pakistan, coupled with the extremely low awareness of HIV/AIDS in Pakistan, as well as growing number of cases, the AIDS epidemic is poised to take a hold in Pakistan. The presence of additional risk factors such as unscreened blood, and low condom use rates make the situation fertile for AIDS to become a major public health issue.
HIV/AIDS in Western Europe In most countries in Western Europe, AIDS cases have fallen to levels not seen since the original outbreak; many attribute this trend to aggressive educational campaigns, screening of blood transfusions and increased use of condoms. Also, the death rate from AIDS in Western Europe has fallen sharply, as new AIDS therapies have proven to be an effective (if expensive) means of suppressing HIV.

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