Human immunodeficiency virus known as HIV, is the virus that carries AIDS. AIDS is the acquired immunoefieceny syndrome, this disease started to become known in the 1980’s. According to David Heitz “ More than 1,000,000 people currently have the disease today in the US” This disease is a failure to the immune system, making the body not able to fight off this disease. This disease is known as to be a global public issue, due to this being a global disease, and having no cure. This disease has killed over millions, and will continue to do as the statistics go up. Developing counties have a better advantage then developed countries of surviving HIV. There are ways to prevent this disease, but HIV is a disease that is in desperate need of a vaccine.
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This disease has been around for some time now, and still no vaccine has been announced. It can be transmitted without any type of symptoms to show. According to Margarite Nathe “35 million people who live with HIV today don’t even know they’re HIV-positive”, this puts many others at risk of getting HIV. This leads to more deaths in the world of up to “20 million” deaths within a decade. Global statics for HIV is very high, it is known to kill more people then the chicken pox. AIDS have killed over 20 million people mostly being in Africa.Over 80 percent admitted that their hospitals have AIDS, ranging from dihaera,chest infections ,amanijitis. We believed that we would of had a vaccine within a few years, but still today we don’t have a vaccine. The main location of this disease is Africa. The range of this disease is to be between the ages of twenty and thirty years of …show more content…
This causes many people in developing countries to die. Take Ada from the movie for example, she was transmitted the disease from her husband, who later died from AIDS. She was able to get medication to keep the virus steady for free where she worked. With AIDS taking over her body and being sick caused her to lose this opportunity and will die because of AIDS. If countries like Africa were able to afford the drugs, many lives would be saved. The transmission of this disease is very sneaky, it comes from unprotected sex from an infected partner, or through fluids getting into the body of someone who is not infected.This disease is then transmitted into the partner, which then bring this disease to their family. This happened a lot in Africa due to the amount of sex workers that are currently living there with AIDS. HIV is not a very contagious disease, and does not survive well in open
This disease has been around for some time now, and still no vaccine has been announced. It can be transmitted without any type of symptoms to show. According to Margarite Nathe “35 million people who live with HIV today don’t even know they’re HIV-positive”, this puts many others at risk of getting HIV. This leads to more deaths in the world of up to “20 million” deaths within a decade. Global statics for HIV is very high, it is known to kill more people then the chicken pox. AIDS have killed over 20 million people mostly being in Africa.Over 80 percent admitted that their hospitals have AIDS, ranging from dihaera,chest infections ,amanijitis. We believed that we would of had a vaccine within a few years, but still today we don’t have a vaccine. The main location of this disease is Africa. The range of this disease is to be between the ages of twenty and thirty years of …show more content…
This causes many people in developing countries to die. Take Ada from the movie for example, she was transmitted the disease from her husband, who later died from AIDS. She was able to get medication to keep the virus steady for free where she worked. With AIDS taking over her body and being sick caused her to lose this opportunity and will die because of AIDS. If countries like Africa were able to afford the drugs, many lives would be saved. The transmission of this disease is very sneaky, it comes from unprotected sex from an infected partner, or through fluids getting into the body of someone who is not infected.This disease is then transmitted into the partner, which then bring this disease to their family. This happened a lot in Africa due to the amount of sex workers that are currently living there with AIDS. HIV is not a very contagious disease, and does not survive well in open