Doug Spada AIDS in Kenya Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east‚ Ethiopia to the north‚ Tanzania to the south‚ Uganda to the west‚ and Sudan to the northwest. In the north‚ the land is arid; the southwestern corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands form those that rise from the lowland
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Patients with AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV causes the human immune system to be altered‚ causing the human body to be vulnerable to infections and diseases. AIDS is a growing virus in the human race affecting men‚ women‚ and children. Target Population In the past‚ white homosexual males and intravenous drug users were people who were known as targeted population for Aids
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with AIDS One often hears that the drug is a ladder to be a developed country. When every illness has its own cure‚ there will be no health problems that we have to consider. Therefore‚ everyone can work hard‚ achieve his or her own success‚ and juxtapose the welfare of the country. But‚ is it true that drug will only bring favorable effects to the society? Is it true that drug is the heavenly way to achieve prosperity? When we talk about drugs‚ we cannot ignore one of the deadliest diseases which
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Stigma of HIV/AIDS It goes without saying that HIV and AIDS are as much about social phenomena as they are about biological and medical concerns. From the moment scientists identified HIV and AIDS‚ social responses of fear‚ denial‚ stigma‚ and discrimination have accompanied the epidemic. Discrimination has spread rapidly‚ fuelling anxiety and prejudice against the groups most commonly affected‚ as well as those living with HIV or AIDS. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of education
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Conclusion to HIV Aids Media has a powerful role to play in educating the world. It was years ago‚ that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome‚ the disease now recognized all over the world as AIDS‚ was first detected and recorded in Asia. Over the past two decades‚ the infection rate has grown rapidly in Asia‚ which is now second number to Africa in the number of HIV positive people. In Pakistan‚ HIV and AIDS was first detected in 1986 and according to UNAIDS estimates‚ this country now has over
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HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh With less than 0.1 percent of the population estimated to be HIV-positive‚ Bangladesh is a low HIV-prevalence country. |Contents | |[hide] | |1 Prevalence | |2 Preventive programs | |3 Tuberculosis | |4 National response | |5 References | Prevalence The country
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Discrimination of HIV/AIDS Discrimination of HIV/AIDS-positive people in medical field and in society is morally wrong In the rural area of Nigeria‚ an AIDS patient cut his hand and‚ when he went to the closest hospital to bandage it‚ the doctors kept transferring him from one outpatient department to another medical ward‚ then to another one because they did not want to get infected from him. He offered them money‚ and only after long debates‚ they took the money from him with tongs (Cao
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Sarcoma. This‚ from many other diseases‚ is a common tumor found amongst HIV-infected patients. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the HIV/AIDS awareness event. Today we will be talking about the history of AIDS and the misconceptions that have blocked our minds from the truth behind this horrific disease. What are the origins of this horrific disease? What are the myths of our past that are still believed today? What is the actual‚ medical truth about HIV/AID? There has been
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progress that are interrupted by scientific revolutions of thought and changes in what was held to be fundamentally true (Kuhn). These significant changes are caused by a crisis that lead to solutions for pressing current problems; in this way the aids crisis acted as a catalyst‚ for it gave the scientific community the necessary push to investigate the nature of retroviruses. Before this point‚ significant process had been made; Ellermann and Bang (1908) isolated the first oncogenic retroviruses
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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) are conditions in the human body that cause failure in the immune system leading to life threatening infections and tumors. HIV was first discovered 30 years ago on June 5th‚ 1981 in a group of young gay men. HIV began to spread through the entire population of people. Since then over 60 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 25 million have died form an AIDS related causes (www.emedicinehealth.com)
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