World AIDS Day

The Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 was one of the deadliest and fast-moving epidemics the world has seen. Outbreaks mainly began in West Africa and quickly spread worldwide, affecting well over tens of thousands of people. It was not long before much of the world became familiar with the disease through personal connections or hearing about it from the extensive news coverage. Richard Preston, an American author, is very familiar with infectious diseases, and dives into all aspects of…

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) has taken victim of a multitude of lives in the United States during the 20th century. Many believed that this epidemic was a sign of judgement in relation to the religions they worship. Others viewed this stigma as a curse and that revealing themselves would shame themselves for the rest of their lives. Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-born American artist who began to focus his works on the AIDS epidemic after a close friend’s baby contracted HIV. His…

Many black and homosexuals have suffered from AIDS and HIV, and many are still suffering today, it is known that the CIA did create this deadly disease. It is believed that the CIA does have a cure but they won’t let it out. Why did the CIA do this to these innocent people? AIDS and HIV was not identified until 1981, the virus had already killed more than 20 million people at that time (New dawn Magazine). The CIA did create Aids and HIV to kill off the innocent black and homosexual community…

contagious disease caused by measles. Patients always have high body temperature, cough, and red eyes in the first three to four days after they infect the disease. In the following days, red flat rash started to appear in their body: first on face then on other part of the body. Usually, the rash will subsidies after it appeared 3-4 days, and patients will be healed up in 7-10 days. Children are easily suffered from measles, and once they were diagnosed, they need to be insulated from others.…

living in first world countries, the current AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is no more than a fleeting thought in their minds when they turn on the news in the morning. However, in the novel Chanda’s Secrets by Alan Stratton, the AIDS epidemic is upfront, personal, and turns the lives of Chanda’s family and neighbours into turmoil. Chanda must deal with the questionable actions of her step-father, the extreme poverty surrounding her living situations, and the ever-present threat of AIDS…

the Beautiful World of Aids In 2013, 26,688 people were diagnosed with AIDS. What is AIDS? And when did it start? If you have never heard of AIDS, please stick around and read this. You may think AIDS is a simple 4 letter word but it stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. But then again anything about this syndrome is not simple at all: treatment, medication, lifestyle, and history. So welcome to the beautiful world of aids. What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and when…

Proctor HCIN Everest Do you know your status > University Mr. Cole 5/25/2016 Abstract When you hear someone say what’s your status? What do you think? Most people associate knowing your status with the disease, HIV/AIDS. There is a really bad stigma that comes with the disease, HIV/AIDS and it’s a lot of information that people do not know about the disease. I remembered about two years ago it was pouring down raining and there was this woman standing outside of the store and had asked me…

cells of the immune system. The loss of CD4 cells makes it difficult for the body to fight infections and certain cancers. Without treatment, HIV can gradually destroy the immune system and advance to AIDS.AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection. AIDS stands for “Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome”. HIV is spread through contact with certain body fluids from a person infected with HIV. These body fluids include Blood, Semen, Pre-seminal fluid, Vaginal fluids, Rectal…

HIV/AIDS has been an untreatable and intractable epidemic since 1981. Many people are unsure of the drastic changes and developments made with this disease. The Centers for Disease Control made a timeline indicating the exact order in which the scientist reported their finding. The Centers for Disease Control (2015) noted information publicly from June 5, 1981 to October 20, 2015, indicating how the disease was found to the information we possess in the 21st century. In Los Angeles, California…

The Glaxo-Wellcome situation to me is much simpler than the reading presents it. I believe that for the sake of continued success going forward, it is in the best interest of both Wellcome Israel and Ofra Sherman to pursue their interest in completely becoming the newest team members of Glaxo. While Wellcome is considered successful, falling between 10th and 20th worldwide in revenue (Jick, T. & Peiperl, M., 2011.), its is not uncommon for these rankings to change dramatically overnight.…