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    History Behind HIV/AIDS

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    HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus has been and still is a huge public health concern. HIV is easily transmitted, and there are a lot of issues that go along with it. HIV is a serious virus that can completely destroy someone’s life. HIV is just like other common infections such as the Flu or the common cold, but the difference between HIV and the Flu is that the body cannot clear HIV from the body. Meaning once you have HIV, you have it for life. This paper is going to talk about the…

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    The AIDS Outbreak Over the last several decades, people have witnessed millions of people especially homosexual died from AIDS. Doctor Don Francis, who worked as epidemiologists at the CDC during 1993 and the exact time of AIDS outbreak in the United States, made a claim, “This may be the first epidemic in history”. However, this claim did not make the people especially homosexual and hatians to be aware and more careful about their health. They believed that this disease named AIDs or HIV…

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    Time magazine's talk about the AIDS Epidemic in their Aug. 3, 1992, cover. The audience is mostly educated adults in their early 20's to late 50's. Those are the people that would be most worried about AIDS and how it was affecting America at that time. The cover main title is "losing the battle", in 1992 AIDS became the number one cause of death for U.S. men ages 25 to 44, there was no cure for AIDS. But there were treatments for people living with aids to allow them to live a little longer.…

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    million of Brazilians are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The National Program for the Transmissible Diseases/AIDS reported that 27 million Brazilians are at high risk, 36 million are considered to be at medium risk, and 7.5 million could be AIDS victims in the next decade. Pedro Chequer, a Health Ministry official said that in Brazil, the Health Ministry is distributing free medicine, passing out condoms, and bringing AIDS awareness campaigns in the areas where the disease is most…

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    millions. While left untreated, HIV can develop into acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). There is no definitive answer as to where the virus has originated. The public is unsettled by this, as unlike many other diseases, HIV does not leave the body. There are several strains of the virus, categorizing HIV into 3 distinct groups. As there are different strains, there are also many theories as to where AIDS has originated, such as the CIA creating the virus to target specific populations…

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    HIV/AIDS has been an untreatable and intractable epidemic since 1981. Many people are unsure of the drastic changes and developments made with this disease. The Centers for Disease Control made a timeline indicating the exact order in which the scientist reported their finding. The Centers for Disease Control (2015) noted information publicly from June 5, 1981 to October 20, 2015, indicating how the disease was found to the information we possess in the 21st century. In Los Angeles, California…

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    HIV/AIDS Case Study

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    This paper will discuss topics pertaining to HIV/AIDs that include issues such as: the percentage of population affected by the disease; historical outbreaks, its approaches, and controlled; objectives and goals the public has implemented to control the disease; the governments influence to minimize the disease; suggested measures to help decrease health risk; and a plan allowing the public to notice such pathogens that are related to the cause of the disease and other health problems.…

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    AIDS In Sub-Saharan Africa

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    AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is one of the most devastating diseases that mankind is ever infected with. Unlike cancer and other deadly diseases which could be referred to as diseases of old people, AIDS is not only deadly but also destroys the society of the infected people as this disease is more prevalent with the youth. No one knows for certain when and how the disease originated but there are many hypothesis on how it originated, one of them is that the disease was transmitted to human…

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    (Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ,2016). Nigeria, which is home to over 250 different ethnic groups, has one of the highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevalence, which greatly impacts the lives of all living there (Answers Africa, 2016). HIV/AIDS is one of the most prevalent diseases in Nigeria with millions of people suffering from the disease. Being a completely preventable disease with the right education on how the infection is…

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    The Aids Disease is called the Aids Syndrome when you include all the symptoms that can come from an infection. AIDS, the letters mean: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is actually the final step or stage and most serious parts of the disease process. The process can even last for ten years until it causes severe problems in life. This is a problem with the immune system in our bodies. It is our ability to fight off infection from bacteria or viruses which are…

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