Cancer Foundation in Detroit. * AZT was discovered in the early 1960’s when the ‘war on cancer’ first began. Doctors would just pick random drugs off the shelves to see if they would work‚ and eliminate the cancer cells. * AZT was approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) as a drug to help combat AIDS and HIV in 1987. * Right after the drug was releases‚ deaths resulting from AIDS skyrocketed because the dosage that was being given to the patients was believed to be too high. Thus
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People living with HIV/AIDS are prone to increased mental deterioration. Mental imbalance and this disease can negatively impact and shortens one’s existence. Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is being used worldwide and has proven effective in prolonging lives‚ but mental health decline coupled with HIV/AIDS is a poor prognosis on life. This awareness has caused officials to provide mental health specialists to render services for people who are high risk‚ or‚ who are living the disease. The intention
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most obvious effect of this crisis has been illness and death‚ but the impact of the epidemic has certainly not been confined to the health sector; households‚ schools‚ workplaces and economies have also been badly affected. Although access to antiretroviral treatment is starting to lessen the toll of AIDS‚ fewer than half of Africans who need treatment are receiving it. The impact of AIDS will remain severe for many years to come. The impact on the health sector
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immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse‚ contaminated blood transfusions‚ hypodermic needles‚ and from mother to child during pregnancy‚ delivery‚ or breastfeeding. There is no cure or vaccine‚ but‚ antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and increase the life expectancy‚ however these medications are very expensive and may be associated with many side effects. Research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the
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Antiviral drugs treat infections like the flu‚ genital herpes and swine flue. How they work? Amebicides work by killing off all the bacteria that act as nutrition for amoeba‚ leading to its indirect destruction. Antibiotics kill bacteria. Penicillin is a bactericidal. And what a bactericidal usually does is it either interferes with the development of the bacterium’s cell wall or the contents of the cell. And bacteriostatic stops bacteria from multiplying. Most antiviral drugs don’t actually
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Matter of Life or Death India is the seventh largest Country in the world‚ home to one billion people and vast ethnic diversity. It has been making great leaps with education‚ industrialization and technology. Literacy rates are continuously going up along with life expectancy. India has been making continuous progress in many aspects for a country that has been relatively poor and extremely poverty-stricken. India is also one of the world’s largest democracies meaning that citizens have a great
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Kaposi’s sarcoma) is much lower. The introduction of drugs like protease inhibitors and useful combinations of antiretroviral therapies has reduced inmate deaths from AIDS by seventy-five percent since 1995. Most infected inmates brought the HIV virus into prison with them; fewer than ten percent of HIV-positive acquired the virus into prison. The virus can be spread behind bars through homosexual activity (including rape)‚ intravenous drug use‚ and the sharing of tainted tattoo and hypodermic
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HIV/AIDS – An International Concern November 16th 2009 Abbreviations and acronyms AIDS : Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ARV : Antiretroviral (drug) CDC : Centers for Disease Control G8 : Group of Eight GFATM : The Global Fund to Fight AIDS‚ Tuberculosis and Malaria HIV : Human Immunodeficiency Virus NGO : Nongovernmental Organization TERG : Technical Evaluation and Reference Group UN : United Nations UNAIDS : Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS UNESCO : United
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION When we think of HIV/AIDS we have certain populations in mind. We hear about its ravages on young men and women; on the gay and transgender populations; on the homeless and the intravenous drug user. We seldom think about HIV/AIDS and senior citizens. What no one talks about is HIV/AIDS and the older adult. It’s no wonder that when you talk to our senior citizens‚ they may have the perception that HIV/AIDS is not a risk to them. Is HIV/AIDS a risk to older adults? Is HIV/AIDS
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