Absolute Monarchy. In an absolute monarchy, the monarch has total authority over the government and his or her people. A cabinet of advisers might be assembled to assist the monarch, but members of the cabinet do not make the major decisions.
HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic. As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people have HIV worldwide with the number of new infections that year being about 2.3 million. This is down from 3.1 million new infections in 2001. Of these approximately 16.8 million are women and 3.4 million are less than 15 years old.
In 2009, an estimated 18% of people with HIV were unaware of their HIV positive status. In 2009, there were an estimated 48,200 new cases of HIV infection in the United States. An estimated 21,000 people with HIV or AIDS died in the US in 2009.