HIV/AIDS

1981 to 2016 the education of aids has evolved over the years. In 1981 they had the first case of Aids. In 1982 was the first Aids case in Africa. In 1983 the CDC notes that Aids is not known to be transported through food, water, or environmental surfaces. From 1982 till 2016 they have made tons of Aids prevention groups for people to go to. In most to all of these years form 1981 to 2016 all said that wearing a condom can prevent Aids form being transmitted. In 1994 Aids became the leading…

The needle exchange programs, a harm reduction process, were created to reduce the spread of bloodborne diseases, including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Frequent drug users are a cost to society in health care, the spread of disease among people or offspring can be costly. The cost of health care to the patients, the supply and distribution of the needles and running the NEPs show great figures. The NEPs are funded by the state Department of Health. The limited quantity of needles…

As we just passed world AIDS day, popular media wants to find ways to help spread the word about safe sex and how to protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS or HIV. As world AIDS day approaches durex, a condom company believes that it is a smart investment to make and embrace a condom emoji. Durex started a, “social media campaign to create the first official safe-sex emjoi”. As our technology increases, Durex believes that young couples use technological devices such a…

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its advancement to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) refer to a retroviral infection that interferes with the human immune system, increasing a person’s risk for contracting common infections like Tuberculosis, opportunistic infections, and cancers that rarely affect others with unaltered immune systems. HIV is acquired through unprotected sex, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from infected mother-to-child. Although HIV/AIDS was…

Jurisdiction have regulations and programs that are suppose to prevent the criminalization of the knowing exposure of HIV before unprotected sex. However, as I read through serval of my empirical research articles, I noticed that a lot of the studies dealing with the criminal transmission of HIV and have been increasing HIV exposure. First, future research that will reduce the spread of HIV should include how the rates of sexually transmitted diseases impact the public health systems and…

This essay examines the case of Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) as a vulnerable group in the light of those social determinants that contribute to its risk status concerning HIV/AIDS. It also provides a general overview of the issue seeking to highlight the historical background of the epidemic among MSM in each target region to the extent necessary. However, the main objective of this essay is to consider not the whole picture in its entirety, but specifically such factors as, first,…

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…

HIV Infection Stages HIV infection can be transmitted through few ways such as sexual contact and blood transfusion. Once a person gets infected, he will normally interact with three stages of infection which are known as acute, chronic (the latent or asymptomatic) and finally AIDS (1). When there is no treatment, HIV infection will progress from one stage to another and weaken the immune system during this process until it finally reaches AIDS. However, HIV medicines and antiretroviral therapy…

Fisher’s “A Whisper of AIDS” speech is arguably one of the most important speeches ever given in American history. When discussing the epidemic of AIDS, Fisher gives a voice to the victims who do not have the power to be heard, she makes the audience realize that change needs to be made because not addressing the problem just because it is not your problem, only makes it worse. She changes the mindset of many people as she gets her point across the audience that people with AIDS are human to.…

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 contribute to the rising body count. In 1987, I fell off the roof of a house…