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infection and to flush out the latent virus (Matthew D. Marsden, 2013) According to Blanco (2013), Dr Deborah Persuad of John Hopkins reported a case of an infant cured of HIV. The baby tested positive for HIV and was treated with a combination of antiretroviral 30 hours after birth. This treatment was administered for a period of 18 months. Five months later after being taken off the treatment, only minor and harmless traces of the HIV virus were found in the child. This alone shows the…

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…

Pandemics are events in which a disease spreads across the entire world. Many pandemics have become notorious for their lethality, symptoms, or historical events that surrounded them. Various notorious and formidable pandemics include the ‘Black Death’ and the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic. The ‘Black Death’ was a pandemic caused by the plague that killed an estimated 25 million people (“Black Death”). The HIV/AIDS pandemic killed an…

Shouldn’t everyone be entitled to medical care if they are ill? Lyme Disease patients in Australia are denied the treatment they deserve because the Australian Government refuses to believe that the disease exists in Australia. Lyme Disease is the fastest growing tick borne illness in the world and is transferred through a tick bite from a tick infected with the disease, creating a bullseye shaped rash but can also be transferred from mother to child in the womb. If left untreated, which is…

This book tells the story of Damon Courtenay as he tries to overcome the adversities caused by haemophilia and Aids. After I finished this book, I was disappointed by the treatment people with HIV and Aids received, particularly by the men and women in the medical profession. I don't want to sound hypocritical and judge these people because personally, I don't know how I will react to such situation, particularly in the 1980’s where the knowledge of this disease was very low. I also believe…

The Chimp and the River is a narration of journalist David Quammen’s search for answers and scientific proof of HIV first occurrence in 1908. He traveled to many places, collecting information on the first existence of HIV, information on scientific data that found patient zero, the first patient that had this pandemic virus. His journey explains how a couple of doctors in laboratory in a war-ridden city, Kinshasa sustained routine biopsy procedures. The procedures where done by collecting…

Introduction: Primary research question: Is there an association between adult patient deaths and high heart rates (over 100bpm) among patients who test positive for the Ebola Virus Disease? (dichotomous categorical–continuous) Two secondary questions: 2. Is there an association between body temperature and heart rate among Ebola positive patients? (continuous–continuous) 3. Is there an association between patient gender and outcome among Ebola positive patients?…

transmission of the parasites, there are a number of drugs to treat the infection such as Suramin (T. b. rhodesiense), Pentamidine (T. b. gambiense), Melarsoprol (T. b. rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense), Eflornithine ( late stage of T. b. gambiense) , and Nifurtimox (Fairlamb, 2003). The current drugs to treat African trypanosomiasis, though effective, often lead to drug resistance, toxicity, and poor efficacy. The production of safer and more effective drugs are currently ongoing. The best way…

Ignoring the AIDS Epidemic: An Analysis of the Current Status of the AIDS Epidemic in Angels in America by Thomas Kushner Kushner’s vision of the future for AIDS awareness in American society has not come true in terms of public awareness of the disease. Certainly, the declaration by Prior Walter that “We won’t die secret deaths anymore” is valid in terms of the growth of awareness of the diseases in the 1990 and 2000s (Kushner 282). Yet, the media has increasingly ignored the AIDS epidemic…

As a Heath Officer, I have been tasked with researching the frequency of HIV/AIDS in my rural area. It is a small population so I will work on both an observational and experimental study design. This will allow me to attempt to understand the spike in incidence of HIV/AIDS as well as work towards isolating the cause and educating the population. For the observational approach, I will work on a cross-sectional survey of the population. A cross-sectional study must include randomly drawn…