biggest overview of videos‚ giving a deep look at what AIDS really is and how it came to be. The video described how HIV literally comes to life when inside a person’s body‚ which gave me chills. Personally‚ I found the videos quite disturbing. It is important to realize‚ however‚ that this is a worldwide epidemic and the children’s faces we see in the videos are ones that are battling this terrible disease. One can become infected with HIV through sex‚ blood transfusions‚ needle sharing‚ and from
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Africa’s AIDS Epidemic Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become an epidemic for many underdeveloped regions. Although it does exist in the developed nations‚ it is more prevalent in places like South America‚ Asia‚ the island countries and most heavily of all Africa. There are many aspects to the problem of AIDS in Africa. Public health departments lack the resources to treat patients properly and to control the epidemic through education. Thirty-three million people have AIDS in the
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The AIDS outbreak in the United States in the late 1980’s prompted education on the prevention of the spread of AIDS by the use of condoms. The AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program was established in 1987 by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). A similarity between Thailand and the US is that both countries were concerned and had been for many years regarding the AIDS epidemic. Mechai’s work inThailand focused on prevention
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South Africa and the Aids Epidemic Political Chaos and Denial among the responsible … Where is the South African Government?…And what about the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers?... There is no surprise for the US reaction… Nowhere in the world is the HIV/AIDS epidemic more widespread than the continent of Africa. For South Africa‚ political disturbance and government denial has fed an epidemic that has reached catastrophic proportions. As the numbers of infected and dead continue to rise‚ the impact
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HIV/AIDS AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus‚ or HIV. By killing or damaging cells of the body’s immune system‚ HIV progressively destroys the body’s ability to fight infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS may get life-threatening diseases called opportunistic infections. These infections are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick It is a major epidemic worldwide and Philippines is no exception. Since the first
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No one has solid evidence on how the HIV virus initially originated‚ however if you asked your physician where HIV originated he or she will probably tell you the epidemic started when monkeys or chimps in the African bush transferred the HIV virus to a person while butchering the primate’s meat for food or through an animal bite. This theory was accepted without question and was so universally popular that it became the facts in the minds of most people. We know that the virus has existed in the
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AIDS In Africa HIV-AIDS has infected over thirty million people in the world. Over 95% of all AIDS cases in the world are in Africa and in some of those countries over 40% of the people are infected (Frederickson and Kanabus HIV and AIDS in Africa 1). AIDS does not solely affect homosexuals‚ or any certain ethnicity of people‚ either; HIV-AIDS can affect any type of ethnicity including African Americans‚ Caucasians‚ Asians‚ Indians‚ and Hispanic people. AIDS cannot be reversed or cured‚ but with
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AVIATION FIRST AID Introduction: The aviation first aid course introduces crews to first aid in an aviation environment‚ and ensures they have basic‚ essential knowledge to treat and care for passengers. First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert‚ but trained personnel to a sick or injured person
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Group Speech AIDS in America Micaiah Bradford‚ Noah Fryer‚ Qiang Pan‚ William Best Attention Getter Introduction Attention Getter: Today we are going to talk about a disease‚ it started in 1959‚ and from Global Health Observatory data‚ more than 70 million people have been infected with this disease‚ 35 million people have died because of it. Over 1.1 million people died worldwide in 2015‚ and yet there is no cure for this disease. You might have already guessed what we are going to talk about today
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deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been reported in cases throughout the world. This paper describes what AIDS is by definition‚ a lists ways the virus is transmitted. In addition to general information given about AIDS‚ this paper addresses the problem of AIDS‚ what is being done to control the virus‚ how it applies to supply and demand‚ and the effect of AIDS on the United States and Africa. What is HIV/AIDS and what does it do to the body? Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the result of
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