Live Aid

Africa has been a hub for many of the world’s deadliest diseases and epidemics. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/Aids are responsible for millions of deaths in Africa each and every year. A major contributing factor to this issue is the current healthcare system set in place. The lack of easy access, coupled with the high cost of medication and treatment makes it very difficult for African citizens to receive the medical help that they need. Africa’s extreme poverty and lack of…

rapidly and incorrectly resulting in resistance to AZT. Protease inhibitors combined with other effective drugs have been more effective in prolonging the lives of infected patients. The inhibitors block the viral enzyme protease, resulting in viral copies that cannot destroy/infect new cells (Fauci, 2003). These combination treatments decline AIDs incidence and mortality in the U.S. Although many medications are presented to infected patients, there’s still no cure for HIV and no vaccine…

the topic of HIV/AIDS has taken awareness of not only the people of the American nation, but the government as well. HIV is an infection that only has the ability to infect human beings. This infection is commonly known as the virus that can potentially lead to the disease as AIDS. AIDS is an acquired disease, not inherited in which there is no cure for. AIDS is the final stage of the HIV infection. The government has taken several strides to help improve the outcomes of HIV and AIDS such as…

have I ever really thought of the epidemics that affect everyone’s lives day in and day out. We never consider the many things that could affect our health, which could in turn cause us to die from something we never would have expected to die from. There are many people who discuss certain epidemics that will affect our population, one of those authors is Stephen Jay Gould and the other is Susan Bordo. Gould discusses the AIDS epidemic and how it was treated when it was first discovered. Bordo…

Fear, Ignorance & Myths=Epidemic Proportions A deadly disease spread faster than the science to treat and explain it, but years would go by before the American people would demand to know why, thereby creating a perfect storm. Fear and ignorance such as the idea that HIV was a gay person’s disease and contracting it was God’s punishment would fuel the power vacuum that allowed HIV rates to rise to epidemic proportions. Ultimately, because the American public believed this myth, these factors…

discover the cause of the AIDS and find the cure to stop it. I felt incompetent seeing how some scientists only care about providing a positive report to the public, instead of warning the people that diseases were spreading and that they needed to be careful. In addition, I felt that some of the homosexual groups were not willing to cooperate with the investigation, maybe it was because of the fear that scientists could find them being the ones responsible for the spread of the AIDS or because…

“AIDS in Black America” is a roughly two hour film depicting the struggles of the black community in the US concerning the AIDS epidemic (hence the title). Blacks suffer a critical amount of casualties from AIDS related causes in the U.S. According to AIDS Update 2014, “Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV diseases, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group (Stine 324). Also, according to the film, if black America were it’s own…

1990, President George Bush senior was anti-HIV and gay. He had implemented a policy against the entry of HIV-infected person into the country. At this time, no one diagnosed with AIDS was expected to live past 18 months (Lopez, 2006). Andrew Buckett, an AZT user was having adverse affects and was not expected to live much longer (Nyswaner, 1993). Lesions were a large indication of HIV at this time. Buckett developed multiple lesions on his face, which is how, in the film, Buckett was accused of…

having the name Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Gilman, p. 247.) The reality with AIDS was anyone was just as likely to acquire the disease: it was not exclusively those who were on the margins in the 1980’s. Gilman cites both perception of the increase of sexually transmitted diseases, and the growth of public awareness of homosexual emancipation, as creating the other mentality about those who had AIDS (Gilman, p. 247.) The obsession with sexual fluids during the Middle Ages was used…

But scientists have discovered that there are three stages to the HIV/AIDS: acute, HIV inactivity/latency, and AIDS. Acute illness shows up within two to four weeks and can be described as flu-like symptoms. This is why the doctors in 1980 thought that those men had the flu. In the first few weeks, those who are infected have a large amount…