AIDS is a rapidly growing‚ and almost uncontrollable‚ problem in society today. AIDS starts out as a virus‚ HIV‚ and then turns into AIDS when one ’s body can not fight the virus anymore. What started out as a small scare in the 1980 ’s has grown into a full blown epidemic that any sexually active person has the right to be scared of. AIDS did not seem like a very big issue at first‚ but it is now visible in our rear view mirror‚ and it does not look like there is much people can do to make it
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Good morning to the lecturer___________ and my fellow friends. I wish to review about an article that I have studied recently. The use of condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies and‚ even more important‚ the spread of sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) has been controversial. This critical review examines an article that links condom usage to the spread of AIDS. The article‚ "Condom use will increase the spread of AIDS‚" was written by Anthony Zimmerman‚ a Catholic priest. As the title
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NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR HIV AND AIDS TREATMENT AND CARE IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH ABUJA – NIGERIA OCTOBER 2010 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FMOH Mr. Linus Awute Permanent Secretary FMOH Dr. Michael Anibueze Director Public Health Dr. Balami Wapada National Coordinator HIV/AIDS Division Dr. Ngozi
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2013 Health Campaign II In the US‚ HIV/AIDS is a major concern and about 1.1 million people are affected with the condition. About 20% of the HIV patients may actually not know about their HIV status. Every year more than 56‚000 new patients get infected with the disease. One of the measures of the Healthy People 2020 is to develop preventive strategies for better management of HIV illnesses and deaths. This is because currently‚ the problems due to HIV/AIDS are resulting in several health
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test HIV positive baby formula to discourage breastfeeding? HIV is not spread through pregnancy‚ but in breast milk. It would make a difference if mothers who are HIV positive in Africa did not breastfeed. Being that Africa can lay claim to having two-thirds of the worlds HIV positive population‚ one way to help stop the spread among kids would be to eliminate the breastfeeding altogether. While the world keeps supplying condoms and other forms of contraceptives‚ this author believes that HIV could
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- What are HIV and AIDS? HIV causes AIDS. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It breaks down the immune system (our body’s protection against disease). HIV causes people to become sick with infections that normally wouldn’t affect them. AIDS is short for immune deficiency syndrome. It is the most advanced stage of HIV disease. - How does HIV spread? HIV is spread by an infected person to someone else when there is an exchange of semen‚ vaginal fluids or blood. This happens during
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My Paper on STD’s By: Ashley Lewis Hiv/Aids Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a lot like other viruses‚ including those that cause the "flu" or the common cold. But there is an important difference – over time‚ your immune systemcan clear most viruses out of your body. That isn’t the case with HIV – the human immune system can’t seem to get rid of it. Scientists are still trying to figure out why.We know that HIV can hide for long periods of time in the cells of your body and that it attacks
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Aja Jones 1st Dec. 18 HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)‚ the agent that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)‚ is a relatively recently discovered virus. The virus was isolated in 1983 and linked to AIDS in 1984. In 1985 a serologic test was developed to identify HIV‚ and since then the seroprevalence of the disease in the United States and across the world has been under careful scrutiny. The attention paid to HIV disease and AIDS since its discovery has been exponential
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Declining HIV prevalence‚ behavior change‚ and the national response ’ 11 12. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access 2011’ 13 16. Myer‚ Landon et al.‚ (2001) ’Condom gap in Africa is wider than study suggests ’ BMJ 323(7318): 937 17 18. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access 2011’ 19 20. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response:
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