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Since 1981, when HIV and AIDS came to the forefront of the public’s mind, Los Angeles County has confirmed 38,000 cases of AIDS. Of that number, 24,000 have died. This accounts for 35% of all AIDS cases in California, and 6% nationally. While both men and women are at risk, in LA County, AIDS is the leading cause of death among men ages 25-44 ("HIV testing," 1999). Despite continuous efforts to address HIV infection, it continues to spread. Advances in treatment, though, have resulted in a…

1. The risk for people in their 20’s to contract HIV is very great. “About 1 in 4 new HIV infections is among youth ages 13-24” (U.S. Statistics). This is because this is when people become sexually active and are inexperienced in protecting themselves. They do not know all of the ways to stay safe while having sex. There are many ways in which to transmit HIV but can only be transmitted through certain bodily fluids. These bodily fluids are: blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids,…

"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…

Stage three of the disease is when an infected individual begins to exhibit opportunistic infections and CD4 count falls below 500/ ml. The final and heightened stages of HIV infection are often described as full-blown AIDS, wherein the immune system is significantly damaged. The symptoms of this stage include chronic symptoms like rapid weight loss, serious fever (reaching temperature of 100 degrees F), soaking night sweats, chronic diarrhea, vomiting, dry coughs, short breaths, distorted…

Similar to Tuberculosis and HIV, tinselsparkleitis shares similar destructive effects on the human body. Tinselsparkleitis is a viral infection caused by the spread of bodily fluids and having close contact with the infected victims. When a patient is infected, it could take up to two years for the victims to show any form of the disease and its symptoms. The beginning signs of the infection are flu like symptoms including fever, sore throat, fatigue, and vomiting with additional a small red and…

and parasites whose favorable environments for development are the mucous membranes of the genital areas, mouth, and throat. Fortunately, some STDs are curable, while unfortunately others are incurable. For example, Chlamydia is a treatable STD while HIV is not a curable STD.…

to the HIV infection (the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Stages or…

AIDS, an invisible dead can change life and families of people who get infect. AIDS is the final form of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). This virus attacks and weakens human resistance and killing millions of people each year. There are millions of people living with AIDS today, about 60% of people in Africa got infect. People are living in fear because AIDS is easy to spreading and there is no medicine to stop this illness. During the AIDS Day Speech on 2006, President Obama gave a speech…

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 sexually active and not having enough information. However, this virus can be very serious 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…