HIV is an environmental issue
HIV/AIDS is an environmental issue!
(By Venansio Ahabwe)
HIV/AIDS may be described an epidemic that has enhanced a conflict between man and his environment. It is, indeed, a result of man’s manifold interactions with the environment. There are environmental perspectives pervading the disease: theories about its origins, modes of transmission and infection among humans, levels of infection, prevention of its spread and treatment for the sufferers, conditions in which HIV/AIDS victims live, circumstances of their death and the aftermath of their final interment.
The tiny germ that is HIV is environmentally selective. It infects cells of human beings and not any other animals, thus the term “Human Immunodeficiency Virus” (HIV). It replicates inside the human body cells and damages them as it spreads, causing the infected person to become vulnerable to his environment.
An infected person’s immune system is broken, allowing viral and bacterial contagions to attack as the HIV reproduces so rapidly. Since the immune system cannot ably fight off both exterior and interior infections, a person becomes severely and frequently unwell. The HIV sufferer can then be said to have AIDS. Ultimately any opportunistic diseases will cause that person to die.
The disease gained the name “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” (AIDS) after a cellular deficiency of the human immune system was found in every AIDS patient as well as other signs and symptoms of disease. This was due to the fact of this disease being acquired from the action of some environmental agent.
Environmental theories about the origin HIV abound. One theory states that HIV is related to SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). The SIV is found in monkeys and chimpanzees. It is alleged that at some point, the virus crossed over from chimpanzees to humans. This is still debatable.
The “hunter theory” is fronted to lend additional credence to the alleged bestial origins of HIV. It states that when hunters
(By Venansio Ahabwe)
HIV/AIDS may be described an epidemic that has enhanced a conflict between man and his environment. It is, indeed, a result of man’s manifold interactions with the environment. There are environmental perspectives pervading the disease: theories about its origins, modes of transmission and infection among humans, levels of infection, prevention of its spread and treatment for the sufferers, conditions in which HIV/AIDS victims live, circumstances of their death and the aftermath of their final interment.
The tiny germ that is HIV is environmentally selective. It infects cells of human beings and not any other animals, thus the term “Human Immunodeficiency Virus” (HIV). It replicates inside the human body cells and damages them as it spreads, causing the infected person to become vulnerable to his environment.
An infected person’s immune system is broken, allowing viral and bacterial contagions to attack as the HIV reproduces so rapidly. Since the immune system cannot ably fight off both exterior and interior infections, a person becomes severely and frequently unwell. The HIV sufferer can then be said to have AIDS. Ultimately any opportunistic diseases will cause that person to die.
The disease gained the name “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” (AIDS) after a cellular deficiency of the human immune system was found in every AIDS patient as well as other signs and symptoms of disease. This was due to the fact of this disease being acquired from the action of some environmental agent.
Environmental theories about the origin HIV abound. One theory states that HIV is related to SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). The SIV is found in monkeys and chimpanzees. It is alleged that at some point, the virus crossed over from chimpanzees to humans. This is still debatable.
The “hunter theory” is fronted to lend additional credence to the alleged bestial origins of HIV. It states that when hunters