Demographic
Demographic on AIDS/HIV
Rhonda Speakman
HCS 490
January 21, 2013
Jennifer Pharr
Demographic on AIDS/HIV A number of people that affect our healthcare in the United States are pediatric patients, recurring sickness and individuals needing continuous medical care. However, none of the above health concerns indicated in the list includes patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/ Human Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS/HIV). AIDS/HIV has affected millions in the United States. The Center of Disease Control (CDC) has estimated in the United States there are about a million people with AIDS. An immigrant from Haiti arrived in the United States in 1969 is believed to be the first person and the first case of AIDS. Researchers from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco began treating homosexual men with Kaposi’s sarcoma which is a form of cancer that is usually found in older men from Mediterranean decent. The Center for Disease Center (CDC) discovered in 1982 a number of individuals that contacted AIDS through blood transfusion, unprotected sex, sharing needles and infants born to infected mother and/or breast milk. About a million people contacted AIDS in the late seventies to the early eighties, and nearly five hundred thousand died from this deadly disease. AIDS is a silent disease that goes undetected until an individual has critical symptoms. The timeframe for anyone to develop AIDS is between five and twelve years. The death rate for AIDS has declined in the United States because a drug call anti-retroviral. Around two million people have died from AIDS, 33.4 million has AIDS and nearly 2.7 million have been diagnose with AIDS in 2008, according to Global Health Council. AIDS/HIV is a disease that does not discriminate, an individual can be young, old be of any ethnicity or sexual preference and or social class. There are a number of challenges in the healthcare industry about AIDS/HIV. The Center for Disease Control
Rhonda Speakman
HCS 490
January 21, 2013
Jennifer Pharr
Demographic on AIDS/HIV A number of people that affect our healthcare in the United States are pediatric patients, recurring sickness and individuals needing continuous medical care. However, none of the above health concerns indicated in the list includes patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/ Human Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS/HIV). AIDS/HIV has affected millions in the United States. The Center of Disease Control (CDC) has estimated in the United States there are about a million people with AIDS. An immigrant from Haiti arrived in the United States in 1969 is believed to be the first person and the first case of AIDS. Researchers from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco began treating homosexual men with Kaposi’s sarcoma which is a form of cancer that is usually found in older men from Mediterranean decent. The Center for Disease Center (CDC) discovered in 1982 a number of individuals that contacted AIDS through blood transfusion, unprotected sex, sharing needles and infants born to infected mother and/or breast milk. About a million people contacted AIDS in the late seventies to the early eighties, and nearly five hundred thousand died from this deadly disease. AIDS is a silent disease that goes undetected until an individual has critical symptoms. The timeframe for anyone to develop AIDS is between five and twelve years. The death rate for AIDS has declined in the United States because a drug call anti-retroviral. Around two million people have died from AIDS, 33.4 million has AIDS and nearly 2.7 million have been diagnose with AIDS in 2008, according to Global Health Council. AIDS/HIV is a disease that does not discriminate, an individual can be young, old be of any ethnicity or sexual preference and or social class. There are a number of challenges in the healthcare industry about AIDS/HIV. The Center for Disease Control
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