Human Immunodeficiency Virus or as we know it is called HIV. This virus attacks a type of cell the white blood cell or another name for it is T cell and the virus makes multiple copies of itself inside these cells. AIDS would stand for...
Costa, Mclntyre, and Ferreira’s study in 2018 documented people having good knowledge about HIV transmission and prevention, although there are still some myths; more so 79.9% of the women are knowledgeable about condom use that prevents transmission of HIV and other related diseases, however, only...
AIDS in Africa is the single greatest threat to Africa’s efforts to reach its full potential. It has taken the lives of over 15 million Africans, has left over 34.3 million infected, and continues to be the leading cause of death in Africa. AIDS has...
HIV in America Before and After Magic Johnson’s Announcement When the HIV virus emerged in the early 80’s, the public reacted with similar fear and aversion to that of the ancient peoples to lepers. The disease was labeled as ‘dirty’ due to its connection with...
For nearly three decades, researchers were unaware of what caused AIDS. In 1981, the CDC published information on five young, gay men in Los Angeles who were diagnosed with a rare lung disease called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Along with many more cases of PCP,...
AIDS was identified for the first time in 1981, and HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, was identified and isolated two years later. Not only is this virus known to have fatal clinical consequences due to the damage that it causes to the immune system,...
Globally, women in different regions face similar issues on different scales of intensity. Prominent issues include how the HIV/AIDS pandemic affects women, including their disease status, along with the varying levels of household, economic, and social power they hold. When greater inequality exists between men...
Jennifer Tucker’s Entwined Practices and AIDS crisis The state of photographs has become a major foundation of historical justification as a topic of cultural and intellectual concern around the world. They also shape historical description are also changing thus leading to creation of employment. As...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the world’s most serious public health and social problems. In the past decade China has experienced a rapid increase in HIV/AIDS cases; the number of Chinese people living with HIV has continued to raise despite the availability of effective...
Cases of AIDS have been reported in 85 countries. It is estimated between 5 and 10 million people around the world now carry the AIDS virus and that as many as 100 million will become infected over the next 10 years. How can you become...
Conspiracy and Secret Societies Aids/HIV In their book “The Complete Dossier,” Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger explore various conspiracy theories that seem to explain certain issues in the society. In the world, certain concerns remain unexplained; however, it is difficult to argue that the origin...
Messages About AIDS in Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon Though Mario Bellatin’s novella Beauty Salon takes place in an unnamed city where the inhabitants are suffering from an unnamed disease, it is commonly interpreted as an allegory for AIDS. The novella was originally published in 1999....
Afraid to Know the Truth AIDS is an extraordinary kind of crisis that is both an emergency and a long-term development issue. Despite increased funding, political commitment and progress in expanding treatment, the AIDS epidemic continues to outpace the global response. No region of the...
Fire in the Blood, a documentary by Dylan Mohan Gray, investigates on the injustice of AIDS treatment in Africa, millions of who die every year just because they cannot afford the antiretroviral drug that could have saved their lives. The documentary portrays how western pharmaceutical...
“And The Band Played On” is a movie released in 1993 by Roger Spottiswoode which focuses around an epidemic that was discovered in the early 1980’s. In this movie, an epidemiologist Don Francis notices an increased rate of death in homosexual men in an urban...
Whenever a person gets sick, the first thing that person does is go to the doctor. This is a normal thing that happens in society. A sick person visits the hospital and expects treatment. When we go to see a doctor, we hold this doctor...