BioChem Solutions' products show the greatest promise in alleviating two of the most devastating medical scourges confronting our global population today: HIV/AIDS and the crippling effects of arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic already has killed more than 25 million persons worldwide since it was first recognized in mid-1981. According to the latest United Nations estimate, some 33 million persons suffer from the disease today. South Africa, with 5 million cases, has the largest HIV/AIDS population of any single nation in the world . . . and that number does not include an estimated 1.5 million orphans who lost their parents to the disease in South Africa alone.

Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people over the age of 55. Second only to heart disease as a cause of work disability, arthritis limits simple everyday activities such as walking, dressing and bathing for tens of millions of victims worldwide. All age groups are at risk, including children. Rheumatoid arthritis, in which joint linings become inflamed as part of the body's immune system activity, is one of the most serious forms of the disease . . . but arthritis generally refers to more than 100 different diseases that affect areas in and around human joints.

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