Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‚ AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections—infection by microbes that take advantage of a weakened immune system. Such infections are usually harmless in healthy people but can prove life-threatening to people with AIDS. Although there is no cure for AIDS‚ new drugs are available that can prolong the life spans and improve the quality of life of infected people. Transmission of HIV—the AIDS-causing virus—occurs most commonly
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Declining HIV prevalence‚ behavior change‚ and the national response ’ 11 12. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access 2011’ 13 16. Myer‚ Landon et al.‚ (2001) ’Condom gap in Africa is wider than study suggests ’ BMJ 323(7318): 937 17 18. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access 2011’ 19 20. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) ‘Global HIV/AIDS Response:
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HIV/AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and an Agenda for Action Horizons Program HIV/AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and an Agenda for Action Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton with Kathy Attawell‚ Julie Pulerwitz‚ and Lisanne Brown Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the contribution of Anne Malcolm (Sydney‚ Australia) and Miriam Maluwa (UNAIDS‚ Geneva) to our thinking about these issues. Anne undertook one of the
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HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Youth Results from an exploratory study in Nairobi‚ Kenya‚ and Kampala and Masaka‚ Uganda Horizons Program Kenya Project Partners Uganda Project Partners HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Youth Ages 14 to 21 Results from an Exploratory Study in Nairobi‚ Kenya‚ and Kampala and Masaka‚ Uganda Horizons Program International Center for Research on Women Population Council Kenya Project Partners Adolescent Counseling Clinic in Kenyatta National
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Alzheimer’s‚ asthma‚ diabetes‚ osteoporosis‚ and even HIV/AIDS.
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that can be transmitted from one person to another either directly by contact or circuitously by fomites and vectors. HIV/AIDS is one of the many communicable diseases in the world. Throughout this presentation‚ a detailed analysis will be given on HIV/AIDS. I will also recommend different ways a community can educate individuals in order to help prevent this disease. HIV‚ also known as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ is a virus that attacks the immune system. If the immune system is not
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against it. Now‚ in 2004‚ we know from bitter experience that AIDS is caused by the virus HIV‚ and that it can devastate families‚ communities and whole continents. We have seen the epidemic knock decades off countries’ national development‚ widen the gulf between rich and poor nations and push already-stigmatized groups closer to the margins of society. We are living in an international’ society‚ and HIV has become the first truly international’ epidemic‚ easily crossing oceans and international
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laboratory and diagnostic tests with Mr. Thomas and informs him he has pneumonia and is HIV positive. Mr. Thomas believes that he contracted HIV while involved in an affair with another woman three years ago. He is afraid to tell his wife‚ knowing she will be angry and that she may leave him. Case Study: The nurse assigned to care for Mr. Thomas reads in the medical record (chart) that he learned two days ago he was HIV positive. There is a note in the record that indicates that Mr. Thomas has not told
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POTENTIAL TARGET FOR HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ABSTRACT HIV was discovered to be a life threatening disease in 1983‚ since then scientist have been progressively trying to develop antiretroviral therapy. Many drugs have been introduced to fight against HIV‚ but each of the drug have some level of toxicity or drug resistance to it‚ Which is why novel targets have been identified that can serve as antiretroviral therapy. Potential targets are explored from all the stages in HIV life cycle here.
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Influenza‚ and Chicken Pox are all forms of infectious disease‚ but one major one that has to be the most deadliest of them all is known as AIDS and HIV. According to "HIV Basics" (2013)‚ "About 1.1 million people in the United States were living with HIV at the end of 2009‚ Of those people‚ about 18% do not know they are infected.” Inflammatory Response HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS‚ which is where the disease originated. Being that there was a virus that started the disease this is where the
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