HIV

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…

Question 11 HIV/AIDS is a very serious, life-threatening, and almost entirely preventable disease. With increased education and awareness, we can continue to decrease the number of new cases each year, encourage all to become knowledgeable about the disease and get tested, and bring attention and care to current HIV/AIDS patients. One of the most at-risk groups to become infected with HIV/AIDS is young adults, who made up 39 percent of all new infections and 15 percent of all people living…

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…

chemokine receptor which functions as a HIV co-receptor. Due to the deletion of CCR5, the ability of the virus to fuse with the host cells is impaired and those people can be exposed however they will not become infected. Another subgroup of Long Term Survivors are referred to as elite controllers. These individuals are infected with HIV however it does not progress to AIDS, this is due to the HLA-B57 allele they have which produces effective CTL against HIV peptides that are presented to…

HIV ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus ) What’s HIV? How can it be transmitted? Can it go away? If so, how.? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus,HIV is just like other viruses, like the ones who cause the “flu” and common cold. Over time,humans immune system can kill this bacterias and viruses out of humans bodies, thats not the case with hiv.For some reason the immune system does seem to get rid of the hiv virus.Its known that HIV can, and probably will hide in cells for longs periods of…

he HIV positive population is very prone to depression. The rate of depression for HIV positive individuals is higher compared to the rate of depression in HIV negative individuals (?). In fact, according to one study, the rate of depression among people living with HIV can be around 20% to 48% in high-income countries and as high as 72% in resource-limited countries (6). The catalysts for the high depression prevalence in the HIV positive population are the many burdens that HIV brings for most…

relationships. The Webster’s Dictionary defines Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as a transmitted infection. HIV is a condition in which, humans will cause failure of the immune system, which can lead to life- threating opportunistic infections. Acquired Immunodeficiency 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…

HIV and AIDs General introduction, introduce topic and why it is important. (Thesis?) The global HIV and AIDs pandemic affects every one of us. not just the affected but those of us that are not afflicted with this terrible disease as well. HIV is currently the world 's leading infectious killer. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Worldwide there are close to 35 million people living with HIV/AIDs, and of that massive number, there are more than one million people in the U.S.…

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…

The grim outlook of HIV has changed over the past thirty years from the early days of the infectious disease. Through massive research and modern medicine, HIV is no longer a death sentence but now a livable condition. However, the demographics and psychosocial implications still remain pretty much the same with a few small differences. Identifying HIV has become more transparent than when it was first diagnosed. Over the years, it has been discovered that people with HIV are susceptible to…