Living with Hiv
Living with HIV
January 7, 2013
Living with HIV Since the beginning of time we as humans have been fighting off and adapting to a variety of diseases. Some we have not treated and ended in tragic death and others we have become adapted to. There are those that have cures and those still to this day without a cure. To name a few like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Cancer, Arthritis and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). All of the diseases I mentioned does not have a cure and we as a society need a breakthrough not symptom treatment. HIV is one that can cause many other complications, because HIV is a disease that attacks your body immune system. It destroy your CD4 cells which this cell orchestrate the immune response, signaling other cells in the immune system to perform their special functions (Cichocki, 2008). This incurable disease came around 1959 when they discovered a man who died decades earlier from a mysterious illness. After studying some blood that was drawn from the body they came to the conclusion it was the beginning of the HIV/AIDS virus. As you know this disease is not like other which most are hereditary, this one is transmitted from person to person through the exchange of body fluids such as blood, semen, breast milk and vaginal secretion (Cichocki, 2008). HIV was common amongst gay men due to it being transmitted sexually and without protection. One of the ways HIV spread so fast was the way it’s contracted through sexual contact with your partner of choice, but another way it can be pass is through the sharing of needles when injecting drugs or during child birth. To this day there are numerous people with the diseases and they are living with it because of our modern medication, but with any disease their come’s complication. Fear of the unknown is our number one cause to reject or treat someone in an inhuman manor. Some with this disease will get treated in such manor that he/she will not be
January 7, 2013
Living with HIV Since the beginning of time we as humans have been fighting off and adapting to a variety of diseases. Some we have not treated and ended in tragic death and others we have become adapted to. There are those that have cures and those still to this day without a cure. To name a few like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Cancer, Arthritis and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). All of the diseases I mentioned does not have a cure and we as a society need a breakthrough not symptom treatment. HIV is one that can cause many other complications, because HIV is a disease that attacks your body immune system. It destroy your CD4 cells which this cell orchestrate the immune response, signaling other cells in the immune system to perform their special functions (Cichocki, 2008). This incurable disease came around 1959 when they discovered a man who died decades earlier from a mysterious illness. After studying some blood that was drawn from the body they came to the conclusion it was the beginning of the HIV/AIDS virus. As you know this disease is not like other which most are hereditary, this one is transmitted from person to person through the exchange of body fluids such as blood, semen, breast milk and vaginal secretion (Cichocki, 2008). HIV was common amongst gay men due to it being transmitted sexually and without protection. One of the ways HIV spread so fast was the way it’s contracted through sexual contact with your partner of choice, but another way it can be pass is through the sharing of needles when injecting drugs or during child birth. To this day there are numerous people with the diseases and they are living with it because of our modern medication, but with any disease their come’s complication. Fear of the unknown is our number one cause to reject or treat someone in an inhuman manor. Some with this disease will get treated in such manor that he/she will not be