Development aid

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…

One year after the major earthquake in Haiti, that occurred in 2010, the country is dealing with a cholera epidemic. This is the first outbreak of cholera in Haiti in over one-hundred years. The year following the earthquake “there has been some 140,000 cases with the death toll well over 3,000” (Brown, 2011) and was reported to have exploded rapidly in late October, 2010. Even though measures are being taken to fight the cholera outbreak, cholera is a bacterial disease of poverty and is…

the nation. This pandemic, later identified as AIDS, caused many deaths and shattered families. This disease caused a distinct homophobia amongst some Americans and destroyed a generation of people. The AIDS epidemic in the 80s was an event that affected the lives of millions of people and still shapes our world today. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome plagued the world in the 1980s and still does to this day. Humans haven't always had the disease AIDS plaguing their lives. HIV originated in…

The Red Death v. Ebola Poe was not talking about Ebola when he wrote the story “The Masque of the Red Death”. The time is all wrong for when Ebola was even around. The time it takes for the disease to kill them is different from how long it takes you to die form Ebola. Also the transportation was not good back then it would of taken them days to get from where they live to Africa. Just take the story and the article and compare sense the story didn't give that much details on the detail.…

The Fight Against Aids It was August 19 when the famous Mary Fischer gave her historic Whisper of the Aids Speech. She gave it at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas. At the time back then speeches were not usually given but she took the chance. When she first started speaking nobody was listening to her but as she kept on speaking. She stilled the noisy crowd and everyone had her undivided attention. In my source, Defined by words not a disease, Shaw wrote that “TWENTY…

even though a number of the allegedly “heterosexual” subjects had died of AIDS, an infection that stays far more common among homosexual men than among heterosexuals: “”Sixteen subjects were presumed to be heterosexual men: six of these subjects died of AIDS and ten of other causes.”” Ibid. • All 19 of the homosexual subjects had died because of AIDS, and LeVay noted that another “problem” was ““the probability that AIDS patients form an unreliable division of gay men, characterized, for…

The International Health Regulations and the World Health Organization work hand in hand and are constantly revising their methods and strategic plans to aid in eradicating and or preventing wide spread diseases. This article focus and stresses the regulations and sanctions that are placed on varying international treaties regarding agreements of trading goods. There are several crucial steps that must be…

Poliomyelitis is an infectious and deadly disease that can spread through human contact. It can infect the victim's brain and spinal cord, which causes paralysis. Common symptoms of polio are: Sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, headache, and stomach pains. These symptoms can last for 2-5 days, then they go away on their own. Few people who have the poliovirus contract more serious symptoms that can affect the brain and the spinal cord. The more serious symptoms are: paresthesia (tingling,…

Scabies is a parasitic STD, and can be spread by skin to skin contact with a person that has scabies. Scabies is quite common, around 1 million people get infected with scabies each year. Some symptoms of scabies can be intense itching usually at night, small bumps or rashes, on fingers, butt, breasts, wrist, and thighs. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/scabies/basics/definition/con-20023488 Your doctor can test for scabies by using a microscope or sometimes taking a biopsy of the…

The organism that is commonly referred to as “Strep” is Streptococcus pyogenes. S. pyogenes is a facultative anaerobe: an aerobe that does not require oxygen for its metabolism and is capable of growth in the absence of it (Cowan & Talaro, 2009, p. 185). S. pyogenes is a prokaryote because it is an organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops (“Classification,”…