HIV/Aids Epidemic HIV/AIDs is a huge epidemic still plaguing society today. The lack of knowledge and technical advances has caused an increasing number of cases. It has made its way around the world since the 1940s‚ causing countries to join together in the fight against AIDs. With all the campaigning that has been done the numbers of cases continue to rise. Countries have separated the disease into three patterns to make it easier to distinguish the effects that AIDs has on different regions
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Aids Epidemic in Africa Over 30 million people worldwide have been infected with the HIV-AIDS virus. With such high numbers‚ the troubling fact is that 95% of those cases permeate Africa. Obviously AIDS cannot be cured or reversed in any sense‚ however with proper insight and treatment it can be controlled. The means for proper treatment is exactly what Africa lacks‚ in comparison to other regions. Nearly 2.3 million deaths occurred in 2003 within the sub-Saharan region of Africa.The efforts
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Analysis of Issue Causes of AIDS There are many factors that cause Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). First of all‚ HIV is caused by having sex through unprotected sex with a person who has infected by HIV. HIV may be transmitted through unprotected heterosexual or homosexual‚ vaginal‚ anal‚ or oral sex. The main routes of transmission are unprotected vaginal and anal sex. Besides that‚ one can be infected
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RENT and the AIDS Epidemic The movie RENT was released in 2005 but is actually set in late 1989/early 1990‚ which was arguably the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and also a time which having the disease was basically a death sentence. While the first outbreak was reported in 1981 very little was actually known about the disease. Upon the outbreak‚ HIV and AIDS was seen and known (wrongly) as a “gay mans disease” because many gay men had been diagnosed with the type of cancer that
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be Concerned with the AIDS Epidemic in Africa “2000 began with 24 million Africans infected with the virus. In the absence of a medical miracle‚ nearly all will die before 2010. Each day‚ 6‚000 Africans die from AIDS. Each day‚ an additional 11‚000 are infected.” Even though we live in America‚ we still have the right to protect others and ourselves and have somewhat of an obligation to help everyone‚ even those in Africa‚ out. We should be concerned with the AIDS epidemic in Africa because if
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disease. The AIDS epidemic continues to be incurable. In an essay written by David Herlihy‚ entitled "Bubonic Plague: Historical Epidemiology and the Medical Problems‚" the historic bubonic plague is compared with the current AIDS epidemic of today. According to his research‚ AIDS will probably prove to be the plague of the millennium (Herlihy p. 18). If one compares the epidemiology and social impact of these diseases they prove to be quite similar. The current AIDS epidemic has the potential
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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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since all of the chaos with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s‚ it has drastically changed for the better in some cases. It’s mainly sexually transmitted‚ but in some cases today it’s mainly spread from drug users using unsanitary needles and equipment. Also‚ according to the CDC‚ around half of the cases being evaluated are of gay and bisexual men. Cases are more noticeable in the Southern and Eastern states. A lot has changed over the years and the topic of HIV/AIDS is unfortunately not talked about
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was diagnosed--AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome). It began in major cities‚ such as New York‚ Los Angeles‚ Miami‚ and San Francisco. People‚ mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users‚ were dying from very rare lung infections or from a cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. They have not seen people getting these diseases in numerous years. Soon‚ it also affected hemophiliacs‚ blood recipients‚ prostitutes and their customers‚ and babies born from AIDS-infected women. AIDS was soon recognized
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Los Angeles‚ which was later determined to be AIDS-related. Since that time‚ tens of millions of people have been infected with HIV worldwide. This global epidemiology of HIV/AIDS is evolving in low and middle income countries. Women and adolescent females in Sub-Saharan Africa are more at risk of HIV due to an extreme number of complex biological‚ behavioral and structural factors. HIV infection among women primarily drives the pediatric HIV epidemic. Postnatal transmission of HIV during breastfeeding
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