First aid

“Silence = Death” and “Women Don’t Get AIDS” looking at art and theatre’s social and political activism and its impact on society. The 1980s were very critical for the AIDS epidemic and there were constantly new discoveries. However, thousands of people were dying due to the lack of accurate information being presented to the public and the slow development of medicine was detrimental to finding effective treatments. This artist strongly shows the importance of AIDS as both social and political…

Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic immune system disease caused by HIV. Did you know Atlanta is ranked number one among U.S cities when it comes to rate of new diagnoses of HIV? AIDS was the first reported in the United States in 1981 and in 2016 it is shown that it has become a major worldwide…

Even with impressive growth throughout the years Mozambique to plagued by the disease that has claimed so many lives. With an aggressive public awareness campaign the promoted use of condoms will help eradicate HIV/AIDS in Mozambique. The history of Mozambique is a troubled one. For the first five hundred years of inception Mozambique was an imperial colony of the Portuguese empire. After official borders were drawn in the scramble of Africa the Portuguese regime held an iron grip for the next…

Introduction Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was labeled a disease in 1981 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has since then become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is a disease, which is the most advanced stage of infection caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This virus attacks the body’s immune system and damages its ability to fight off infections and diseases (Kerin, 2015). Burroughs Wellcome is a subsidy of Wellcome PLC, a public limited company…

“How to Survive a Plague,” was a nice learning experience of how far we have come to lessening the impact of AIDS transmission and treatment. I remember hearing much about the difficulties that came with tackling the AIDS epidemic; however, I did not know how prevalent it was in the U.S. because I mostly heard about how big it was in certain regions-mainly Africa. Learning about how the AIDS epidemic effected the people within New York was very shocking. It demonstrated the issues that we face…

The question of when the HIV virus originated is often asked, but unanswered. There are three different theories about when the transmission of HIV came about. (Hillis, D.M., 2000) The first theory, called Transmission Early Hypothesis suggests humans contracted HIV in the early 1900’s. This theory goes on to say that a small population of humans had it, but it stayed isolated within this population until the 1930’s when political changes arose in Africa and caused the virus to spread between…

Because AIDS was first seen only in minority groups of society such as homosexuals and needle injectors, AIDS was falsely believed to be contained to just these minority groups and labelled an outcast disease. The original name for AIDS was, “gay-related immune deficiency” (McMickens). Consequently many people who were not members of these groups thought that they were safe…

RUA: HIV/AIDS HIV, which stands for, human immunodeficiency virus is a virus caused by the HIV infection. AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, which is caused by HIV. HIV is a virus meanwhile AIDS is more a syndrome. HIV triggers AIDS and interferes with the bodies’ ability to fight various infections (Johnson, 2015). Epidemiology of the disease HIV/AIDS is now a global pandemic. As of 2012 approximately 35.2 million people are living in the world with HIV globally.…

Signs and Symptoms: HIV should be viewed as a continuum which includes initial infection, asymptomatic latent infection, symptomatic infection and end-stage AIDS diagnosis. The progression along a person’s continuum cannot be predicted as it varies from person to person. Since each person’s progression through HIV is different, each person should be viewed as an individual regardless of symptoms they may present with. There are various symptoms that a person can present with during the…

In the following essay I will compare and contrast two of the low-income sub-Saharan African cases that have been most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, in illustrating how socio-economical, political, and cultural challenges affect the countries’ capability of controlling the spread of HIV/AIDs. It is important to examine the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, as it is the region most affected, accounting for 69% of all people living with HIV in Africa (UNAIDS, 2012).…