HIV/AIDS

treatment. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS and it weakness a person’s ability to fight the infections. When you get in contact with HIV you can not get rid of it, you will have it for the rest of your life. HIV can affect the immune system and it can destroy some of the cells in the body that…

AIDS has the word “acquired” in the name, which means it is obtained but what does that entail? The disease derives from a virus labeled the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Once infected with HIV it causes the body to try and fight the infection yet in doing so only cripples the body's immune system. In time the virus slowly tears down the immune system which makes it much hard to defend itself from the germs it used to be able to protect the body from. Leading to AIDS which is the…

Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is first reported to have moved to San Francisco 1976 which nearly coincided with the beginning LGBT Rights Movement; which was the most successful when considering the movements…

Role of Anthropologist in HIV/Aids Article In this issue of “Practicing Anthropology” a multitude of articles discuss the AIDS epidemic taking place throughout different African Countries. These articles focus on various aspects of HIV/AIDS in Africa such as the correlation between gender and HIV, the influence of the lack of health care workers on HIV/AIDS, the different ethical components needed to take into consideration when developing various HIV/AIDS interventions, and different types of…

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…

Viruses are the causes of a huge number of diseases in humans. Such as, small pox, a common cold, chicken pox, influenza, shingles, herpes, polio, rabies, and AIDS. These are only some of the viral infections. In some cases, cancer may up rise from the virus, but it is not very common. (Emiliani, C. 1993) Introduction Human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, is one the world’s most fatal illnesses. (Regents of the University of California) It is a virus in which attacks the Immune system, also known…

programs to treat HIV/AIDS in India. A major component of that is NACO (The National AIDS Control Organization). The National AIDS Control Organization NACO is the organization that is responsible for creating policies and implementation of programs for the control and prevention of HIV/AIDs in India. NACO in India focuses on providing quality care and equal access to all Indian citizens living with HIV. The goal of their current program, NACP-IV (2012-2017), is to reduce annual new HIV…

HIV is a human immunodeficiency virus that weakens the Immune system by making it impossible to fight of the virus. There is no known cure for HIV/AIDs but there are medications available so, with proper treatment it can be controlled. HIV affect all races but Africans/ Americans are the racial group that is most affected by HIV/AIDs. Most the new diagnosis occurred within the African/American community and gay/bisexual African men are even more affected by it. According to the CDC, African…

The less common ways of transmitting HIV is by being born to an infected mother, it can be passed through the stages of pregnancy from mother to child. Eating food that has been chewed by someone who has been infected by HIV, although extremely rare, this can still spread the infection. Also Being bitten by a person with HIV; there has been a few cases, but each of these cases it has only involved severe trauma with extensive tissue…

sometimes death. AIDS AIDS is caused by human immunodeficiency virus. You can get this from contact through infected blood, semen, or vaginal fluids. If having unprotected sex with someone that has an HIV, you could then get it. By sharing needles or drugs with someone is another way of getting AIDS. AIDS can be spread through vaginal fluids, blood, semen, rectal fluids, and more. By mainly having sex or sharing injecting drug equipment, such as needles, with someone who has HIV, causes you…