1-In Indonesia, infection rates among blood donors has _________ tenfold in the past two years.
2-In February 2000, three former drug company executives ___________ of selling blood products tainted with HIV were given prison terms.
3-He said that adolescent and adult athletes were ____________ by different types of injury. "Teens are more likely to suffer injuries at the growth plates - the centres of growth of the bone - and the attachment points for tendons," he said.
4-An estimated 10,000 Iranians are infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, according to official Health Ministry figures just ___________. Of these, only 2,207 are officially registered as HIV-positive.
5-"A lot of blood is ___________ to the skin in an attempt to cool down, and as a result the brain is ________ of oxygen.
6-Many positive claims have been _________ for anti-depressants, but some patients experience bad side effects. 7-Although women are thought to be twice as likely to suffer from anxiety disorders as men, research suggests the condition is sometimes genetically _____________.
8-Asthma attacks are __________ as feeling similar to taking deep breaths of very cold air in winter. Breathing becomes harder and may hurt, and there may be coughing. The air may make a wheezing or whistling sound.
9-The practice was normal everywhere once, but, over the years, other countries have __________ the use of general anaesthetics to hospitals. In the UK, a combination of professional resistance to change among dentists and patient demand for general anaesthesia _____________ this happening.
10-The PHLS estimates there are about 500 individuals living in the UK with HIV infection __________ through treatment with blood-clotting products.
11-When Aids first ___________ as a real threat to millions of people on the African continent two decades ago, a few countries, including Uganda, Senegal and Zambia, acted quickly to combat its spread.
12-They began health education programmes, _________ condoms and, in the case of Uganda, ____________ same-day HIV testing available.
13-And Africa has ___________ three-quarters of the more than 20 million people who have died of Aids since the epidemic began. The picture across Africa is bleak, but it is not uniform.
14-Aids has already killed an ___________ 22 million people - many of them in Africa. Most of those who die are in the prime of life - and they often leave behind children.
15-Brazil does have an aggressive prevention campaign. It has used its open attitude to sex, which is sometimes ___________ in other countries for the spread of Aids, to full advantage.
16-The first Aids case was __________ 20 years ago. Since then, 21 million people around the world have died of the killer disease, and a further 36 million continue to live with it. Most are in Africa.
17-According to a report ____________ at the Tehran Aids conference by the Secretary of the National Committee to Combat Aids, Dr Bahram Yeganeh, more than one million people are routinely tested for HIV in Iran.
18-In Italy, a Rome court ordered the Health Ministry in June of this year to pay damages to 351 people who ____________ the HIV virus and hepatitis through blood transfusions.
19-Southampton General Hospital had shown that patients who had ____________ surgery on their liver and pancreas could be fed by tube almost immediately after their operations without ill effect.
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