World AIDS Day

The Congo –HIV/Aids By Maddison Amoroso: The Congo is a dangerous place in Central Africa. They suffer from poverty, diseases aids and HIV, a high rate of underage marriages and childbirth, in 2013, around 700 newborn babies were infected every day with Aids or HIV, but only 24% of the children who needed antiretroviral treatment (ART) received treatment causing 190,000 children to die. The Congo has the most serious HIV and Aids case in the world. Over 24.7 million people living in the Congo…

the population lives on less than two dollars a day. Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, but there is hope. According to the African Development Bank Group in 2015 alone real Gross Domestic Product grew by 8.1%. Even with impressive growth throughout the years Mozambique to plagued by the disease that has claimed so many lives. With an aggressive public awareness campaign the promoted use of condoms will help eradicate HIV/AIDS in Mozambique. The history of Mozambique is a…

motivation came from the fact that a new movement for rights and justice had just begun and was only just starting to take off. This ultimately led to protests, riots, and many groups that were not only pro-gay but were also fighting for a cure for HIV/AIDS. The fear of dying caused a strong retaliation, this, in turn, gave more than enough reason for an even more prominent LGBT Rights Movement. Just as people did not ask to contract cancer, people also did not ask to contract HIV, separate…

Stigma is an extremely important issue that has been associated with AIDS from the beginning of the disease. Despite many advances in technology and research, many people are still getting infected by this disease. Although there are treatments for this disease now, the extreme fear is still alive since there is no cure currently. With there being no cure, the individuals that are living with AIDS get discriminated and stigmatized from other people out of the distress that they might get this…

different parts of the world. The virus was of an existence in the united stated around the 1970s. HIV can be contracted through fluids in the blood, semen, rectal…

The Great Plague of 1665 and the emergence of HIV/AIDS are similar and different in a variety of ways. Some ways that these two outbreaks differ is that HIV/AIDS affect people globally while the plague was centralized mainly in Europe and central Asia, different hosts or agents were responsible for the outbreaks and affected the body differently, and that the governments of the infected areas responded to the outbreak differently. Various ways that caused the two outbreaks to be similar was that…

name of Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch discovered an infected particle in which was smaller than any bacteria and would soon be known all around the world as a virus (Emiliani, C. 1993). 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)…

According to the World Health Organization, “more than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV.” Unlike other viruses, our bodies are unable to get rid of HIV. So once an individual contracts it, they have it for life. This virus attacks the host’s immune system which—in turn—opens up the possibility of other diseases to wreak havoc within the body. To be more specific, AIDS.gov states that HIV’s objective is to attack key points…

“AIDS in Black America” is a roughly two hour film depicting the struggles of the black community in the US concerning the AIDS epidemic (hence the title). Blacks suffer a critical amount of casualties from AIDS related causes in the U.S. According to AIDS Update 2014, “Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV diseases, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group (Stine 324). Also, according to the film, if black America were it’s own…

During the 1980’s the world was evolving, everything seemed possible as everything was being created. Shows to watch your favorite musician play their top hits, creation of cell phones to keep in touch with everyone. It was a new era for America, which seemed as if nothing could go wrong. In 1981 an unknown disease strikes five gay men. No one knew about this disease and what it was capable of doing to America. Soon after this report went public, doctors across the country had people fleeting in…