immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention strategies has focused on helping high risk individuals including individuals uninfected with HIV. The responsibility of National programs is to inform the public regarding prevention strategies‚ identify priorities‚ plan‚ and implement disease prevention strategies. It’s common knowledge all over the world that HIV infection is the leading cause of death. “Human immunodeficiency virus HIV and AIDS remain the
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Falsey HCS/457 September 9‚ 2013 Markeith Braden Article Review Paper-AIDS The topic chosen was HIV in Nashville. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has three stages. The first stage is acute illness infection. The second stage is clinical latency. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the final stage of the HIV virus (AIDS.gov‚ 2009). In Nashville‚ there were 881 new reported cases of HIV/AIDS in 2012. Those are just the ones that were reported. According to the Centers for Disease Control
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The Facts about HIV & AIDS After working in the healthcare field for a few years‚ I have come to the disturbing conclusion that there are still so many of us that have no knowledge of this deadly epidemic that’s spreading across the U.S.. This disease is called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome commonly known as AIDS. AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ also known as HIV. This disease is one of the leading
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million people are living with HIV worldwide and Sub-Saharan Africa makes up 68% of the global total with 22.5 million people living with HIV.1 In an effort to address this epidemic‚ voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) programs have been implemented in many of rural and remote areas. VCT serves as the gateway to HIV prevention‚ treatment‚ care and support by allowing people to learn their HIV status. According to World Health Organization (WHO)‚ knowledge of one’s HIV status benefits the individuals
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What is HIV? What is AIDS? Two big questions which have been answered only recently. What we still don ’t understand is what HIV and AIDS bring to. Is it just death and physical sufferings? No. There is much more. Alongside these first problems there are other secondary problems which are not usually thought of. I will talk about the sociological‚ economic and ethical issues surrounding the availability of treatment in different countries‚ but first I must explain what HIV and AIDS are. Basically
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Introduction Growing up in Kenya‚ that has the joint fourth largest HIV epidemic in the world‚ I had the opportunity to volunteer for an organization called ‘Care for Kenya’ that works in the largest urban slum in Africa. I conversed with women that discussed their challenges living in the slum; HIV was frequently mentioned as a growing issue. I became interested to learn more about the dynamics of how the virus is spread‚ specifically for Kenya. I came across the SIR model when researching the spread
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (slowly-replicating retrovirus) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)‚[1] an infectious disease in which progressive failure of the human immune system leads to life-threatening opportunistic infections and/or cancer. HIV infects vital cells in the human immune system such as helper T cells (specifically CD4+ T cells)‚ macrophages‚ and dendritic cells. HIV infection leads to low levels of CD4+ T cells through three main mechanisms:
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virus (HIV) in 2002 - bringing to 42 million the number of people globally living with the virus. As the world enters the third decade of the AIDS epidemic‚ the evidence of its impact is undeniable. Wherever the epidemic has spread unchecked‚ it is robbing countries of the resources and capacities on which human security and development depend. In some regions‚ HIV/AIDS‚ in combination with other crises‚ is driving ever-larger parts of nations towards destitution. The world stood by as HIV/AIDS swept
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Patient zero can be anyone‚ it can be your co-worker‚ your neighbor‚ or even someone you have never even met and is across the world. This person is the first one that has been contaminated with the new disease that is about to spread throughout the population. Patient zero makes contact with other people causing them to get the disease then they go around doing the same cycle as the person that gave the disease‚ which in this case it is Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The patient zero
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HIV and AIDS Have you ever wondered what HIV or AIDS are? HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It causes AIDS which stands for acquired immune deficiency. These viruses attacks the immune system and can cause you to die because it attacks your helper T cells. There are no cures‚ but you can take medication to help with the symptoms. AIDS and HIV are STD. When one person has AIDS and you have contact with that person they can transmit that disease to you. Another way you can develop AIDS
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