HIV-positive people

AIDS and HIV are deadly diseases that have been occurring for decades. The first report about AIDS was in 1981 when 5 young healthy gay men immune system were not “working“ and 2 of them died by the time the report was published. By the end of the year of 1981, there were over 200 cases of severe immune deficiency among gay men. Back then in 1982, Scientists used AIDS for the first time to describe events that had occur known as opportunistic infections, which are Kaposi 's sarcoma (a type of…

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2016a), approximately 3.5 million people in the United States are infected with Hepatitis C and more specifically, one third of all injection drug users ages 18-30 are currently infected. This outstanding number is in addition to the 1.2 million of the population who are currently infected with HIV (CDC, 2015a). Thusly, establishing its relevance to adults and their health. With injection drug use being at the top of the list for…

Integrated Behavioral Intervention In the study “Integrated Behavioral Intervention to Improve HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence and Reduce HIV Transmission”, a strategic method was utilized to assess the impact an integrated behavioral intervention imposed on reducing HIV transmission risks in individuals living with HIV/AIDS (Kalichman, et al., 2011). The participants of the study were 310 men and 126 women 18 years of age or older from an AIDS service provider in Atlanta Georgia. The research was…

"During the early years of the HIV epidemic, a number of states implemented HIV-specific criminal exposure laws. These laws impose criminal penalties on people living with HIV who know their HIV status and who potentially expose others to HIV. In 1990, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, which provides states with funds for AIDS treatment and care, required every state to certify that its criminal laws were adequate to prosecute any HIV-infected individual who…

and social factors that separate the different risk groups for HIV-1. HIV is not an airborne virus and cannot be transmitted through casual contact, kissing, urine or even insect vectors [17]. The transmission is only possible if bodily fluids come in contact with a mucous membrane, damaged tissue or injected directly into the bloodstream [18]. Unprotected heterosexual intercourse is the main transmission route causing over 90% of HIV infections in adults [16]. In children, vertical transmission…

Wonder how many people around you have AIDS? As living in the New York City, the most populous city in the United States, thousands of people that will pass by as you are walking on the street. According to “Current HIV Statistics” has proven that 1 out of 118 people have HIV infection, and yet 20% of them haven’t noticed they are infected. AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, it is a highly contagious disease caused by HIV infection. HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune…

found a cure for it yet. 1.1 million People in America are contracted with this virus and an average age range is just the young age of 13. Within the last two decades the HIV virus has become the largest scope of infection across the globe. With the number of infected people on the rise, it is important to understand how to cope with a disease so wide spread and so dangerous to someone’s body. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the key factors of the HIV infections and the highlighting…

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…

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than 20 types of sexual transmitted disease (STD). Many people do not take any sexual precaution, so due to this one of the most common STD that is transmitted is Human immunodeficiency virus, or also known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Dallas, 2016). It enters the body attacks the immune system, and then it is too late you did not make the right sexual choice to be safe so now you are contracted with HIV. It is better to be abstinence than to be…