Much has changed for the better since the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the mid-1980s. The number of new annual HIV infections is less than one-third of what it was. In addition, more HIV-prevention drugs are reaching the marketplace and giving consumers options beyond Truvada, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 and is close to 99% effective when taken daily, as prescribed.
PrEP is a HIV-prevention strategy, which requires a HIV-negative person to take medication. It is “one of the most important tools we have to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. and around the globe,” says Dr. Douglas Krakower, an infectious disease specialist at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. An acronym for pre-exposure prophylaxis, “PrEP is highly effective. It’s very safe in the vast majority of people who use it.”
It’s suggested the average person walks about 100 steps per minute – which would mean it would take a little under 30 minutes for the average person to walk a mile. (Pexels photo)
When it comes to being fit and healthy, we’re often reminded to aim to walk 10,000 steps per day. This can be a frustrating target to achieve, especially when we’re busy with work and other commitments. Most of us know by now that 10,000 steps is recommended everywhere as a target to achieve – and yet where did this number actually come from?
The 10,000 steps a day target seems to have come about from a trade name pedometer sold in 1965 by Yamasa Clock in Japan. The device was called “Manpo-kei”, which translates to “10,000 steps meter”. This was a marketing tool for the device and has seemed to have stuck across the world as the daily step target. It’s even included in daily activity targets by popular smartwatches, such as Fitbit.
When it comes to being fit and healthy, we’re often reminded to aim to walk 10,000 steps per day. This can be a frustrating target to achieve, especially when we’re busy with work and other commitments. Most of us know by now that 10,000 steps is recommended everywhere as a target to achieve – and yet where did this number actually come from?
The 10,000 steps a day target seems to have come about from a trade name pedometer sold in 1965 by Yamasa Clock in Japan. The device was called “Manpo-kei”, which translates to “10,000 steps meter”. This was a marketing tool for the device and has seemed to have stuck across the world as the daily step target. It’s even included in daily activity targets by popular smartwatches, such as Fitbit.
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Top Cyber Attacks of 2020
With so much of the world transitioning to working, shopping, studying, and streaming online during the coronavirus pandemic, cybercriminals now have access to a larger base of potential victims than ever before. Zoombomb became the new photobomb hackers would gain access to a private meeting or online class hosted on Zoom and shout profanities and racial slurs or flash pornographic images. Nation-state hacker groups mounted attacks against organizations involved in the coronavirus pandemic response, including the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some in an attempt to politicize the pandemic.
Even garden-variety cyber attacks like email phishing, social engineering, and refund theft took on a darker flavor in response to the widespread economic precarity brought on by the pandemic.