PROBLEM Introduction Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) results in destruction of the body’s host defenses and immune system leading to the condition called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV-AIDS is one of the world’s greatest public health crises. For many years‚ because of lack of understanding and effective treatment‚ it is now considered a rapidly progressing fatal disease. HIV infection in humans is considered pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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impact of HIV/AIDS on San Francisco‚ the rest of the United States‚ as well as the rest of the world. I will tell how it started small an expanded across the globe. This disease killed many and is still taking many lives today. The origin of the disease is believed to be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where people hunted infected chimpanzees for meat and became infected themselves when they came into contact with the chimpanzee blood(Where did HIV come from?‚ 2012). Aids affected
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Paediatric HIV/AIDS in India . According to National AIDS Control Organization 2007 estimates ‚out of an estimated 2.31 million people with HIV and AIDS in India‚ women constitutes 39% and children below 15 years stands at 7.8% Improved access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres is key to fight against HIV/AIDS. It is important to design and implement intensive child-focused IEC separately targeting rural and urban population through an appropriate mix of media.It is also important
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HIV/AIDS in the African American Community Teneika Carlisle Current Issues/HIV infection MULT 171 (Web 92100) May 23‚ 2010 HIV/AIDS in the African American Community The African American Community is facing a major health crisis called HIV/AIDS. This disease has become a pandemic in the African American Community. South Africa alone has 5.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in 2009‚ more than any other country. Almost one-in-three women aged 25-29‚ and over a quarter of men aged 30-34
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about the HIV/AIDS problem in your country. You must cover the following points: 1. The size of the problem: How many people are infected? Which are the key population groups that are affected? What are the main routes of transmission? 2. Describe the cultural/social norms in your country and how they impact on the developing situation 3. How do you think that the knowledge above might be used to tackle this problem and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS? WORD COUNT: 898 HIV is one of
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Causes of AIDS There are many factors that cause Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). First of all‚ HIV is caused by having sex through unprotected sex with a person who has infected by HIV. HIV may be transmitted through unprotected heterosexual or homosexual‚ vaginal‚ anal‚ or oral sex. The main routes of transmission are unprotected vaginal and anal sex. Besides that‚ one can be infected with HIV through
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and Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) found out that at the end of 2001‚ 13.4million children under the age of 15 had lost one or both parents to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The increase in AIDS‚ which orphans many children‚ is one of the major challenges in many countries. According to HIV/AIDS Perspective (2004)‚ one of the worst consequences of AIDS is the large number of children orphaned as a result of parents dying from AIDS. By mid 1997‚ 10 million children under
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Social and Economic Effects of HIV/AIDS on Poverty in Africa Within the last thirty years‚ it has become well recognized that HIV/AIDS is a serious disease that takes many lives every year. However‚ we may not be getting the full story. What people don’t realize is the extreme social and economic effects that result from the spread of HIV in Africa. This should be a serious concern of every person of every country‚ not only because of the massive loss of life‚ but because of the danger posed by
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Abdalla A. Bafagih Professor Trent Newmeyer Sociology of AIDS Soc 309Y1F June 21‚ 2004 Impact of Culture on the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya a national culture is not a folklore‚ nor an abstract populism that believes it can discover the people’s true nature….a national culture is the whole body of the efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe‚ justify and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence
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commemorations of independence. However‚ of late the country has been grappling with the HIV/AIDS pandemic‚ a deadly evil of magnitude proportions with which no refuge exists. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana has graduated to being a vicious threat against humanity in spite of sexual orientation‚ age or social status. “Southern Africa is the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2003 Botswana had an HIV/AIDS prevalence estimated at 37.3%‚ second highest in Southern Africa after Swaziland”.
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