INTRODUCTION
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have always plagued the globe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory (GHO), there are 36.9 million cases of HIV infections throughout the globe by the end of the year 2014 and 0.08% of adults with ages 15-49 years old are infected with HIV (World Health Organization, 2016). Also, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), there was an average of 30,000 (23,000- 58,000) cases of HIV in the year 2013 in the Philippines; 37,000 (27,000- 83,000) in the year 2014; and 42,000 (30,000- 120,000) in the year 2015 (UNAIDS, 2016). According to the Philippine Canadian Inquirer, the
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Aside from the nature of HIV itself, social factors have also contributed to the prevalence of AIDS. These factors include ignorance or misinformation, deficiency of resources, apathy and malpractices. HIV and AIDS awareness is important in preventing more cases of infection and in managing already existing cases. Most people do not have enough knowledge about HIV and AIDS thus they do not know how to protect themselves. Different campaigns aimed at educating the people include the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) HIV and AIDS program by the DOH and the Text HIV 28504 by the Philippine National AIDS Council and Globe Communications. In spite of these efforts, the prevalence of HIV continues to rise. Concerning the resources allotted for the HIV-infected population, the Department of Health seeks Php 600-million funds. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer through Inquirer.net, DOH ex-Secretary Jannette Garin said that the cases of HIV in the Philippines will reach 133,000 in 2022 and the out-patients’ HIV package will cost the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Php 4-Billion (Inquirer.net, 2015). Another concern is the accessibility of Antiretroviral Therapy and Testing Centers for HIV. Although testing for HIV and acquisition of ART is free in the Philippines, it is a different case for many countries especially for those in the Africa. An aggravating factor too is that AIDS patients suffer from the
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS is a pandemic problem affecting global health. At the end of 2015, 36.7 million people were living with HIV/AIDS globally. The rate of incidence is more prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa with almost 1 in every 24 adults living with HIV/AIDS. In the united states, HIV/AIDS is a diversified health problem affecting all sexes, ages and races and involving the transmission of multiple risk behavior. However, with the introduction of various prevention programs and antiretroviral drugs, the incidence of HIV/AIDS has reduced.
In 2014, this region had approximately 1.4 million new cases of HIV while 790,000 died of the infection. The Asian-Pacific area has less number of victims with HIV/AIDS (five million in 2014). The new infections that year were 340,000 with China, Indonesia, and India claiming 78% of the new infections in the region. The number of deaths caused by HIV was 240,000 which is an increase by 11% since the year 2000. The reason for the increase is lack of access to antiretroviral therapy. There is better news in Latin America: 1.7 million people are living with HIV. In 2014, there were 87,000 new infections and 41,000 deaths in that region. Western and Central Europe and North America region had 2.4 million HIV victims with an estimated 85,000 new diagnoses. The number of deaths was 26,000. Eastern Europe claimed 1.5 million victims, 140,000 newly diagnosed, and 62,000 deaths due to HIV related causes. The Caribbean region had 280,000 victims in 2014. Thirteen thousand were newly diagnosed and the region lost 8800 victims. In the same year, the Middle East and North Africa region had 240,000 people living with HIV, 22000 new infections, and 12,000 deaths (Joint United Nations Programmed on HIV and AIDS,
The World Health Organization’s Global Health Observatory estimates that 78 million people have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during the course of the epidemic, and that 39 million men, women, and children have died.1 Nearly 1 in 20 adults in sub-Saharan Africa are currently living with the infection. HIV represents one of the world’s most serious health problems.
The number of people living with HIV remains to escalate, in large part a positive trend, because more than 15 million people worldwide as of March 2015 are on antiretroviral therapy and consequently are living longer(UNAIDS 2015:81). Concurrently, even if new HIV infections have dropped, there is still significant high number of new HIV infections every year, contributing to the burden of the epidemic. Globally, 0.8% of adults aged 15–49 years are living with HIV. Although 80% of people living with HIV live in only 20 countries, the HIV epidemic residues international, affecting all parts of the world and impose significantly to health problems in all corners of the world. Globally, it was able to provide prevention of maother to child transmission of HIV services for 73% of pregnant women living with HIV during the end of 2014.
The past several decades the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a protracted disaster in the gay community. Furthermore, by what means each person handles their diagnosis and recovery of HIV/AIDS. Doctors and researchers have known about this deadly virus since the 1980s, still have not been able to find a cure, but have had many close attempts. Humans can practice different methods to protect themselves. According to World Health Organization HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 34 million lives so far. In 2014, 1.2 million people died from HIV-related causes globally. There were approximately 36.9; 41.4 million people living with HIV at the end of 2014 with 2.2 million people becoming newly infected with HIV
As of 2013, there are approximately 2.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in India. The prevalence rate of about 0.3% in adults
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) continues to be an incredibly important health concern for not only the United States (US) but across the Globe (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016a). In the US alone, there are an estimated 1.2 million people that as of 2013 are living with the disease (CDC, 2016a). Scientists believe that HIV derived and mutated from a virus known as the Simian Immunodeficiency virus which was prevalent in chimpanzees, during a time that humans were hunting and consuming chimpanzee meat (CDC, 2016a).
With the prevalence and spread of communicable diseases on the rise, epidemiologists are working very diligently to find the agent, host, environment, and how it is spread with every new discovery. According to MedicinePlus (2016), “infectious diseases kill more people worldwide than any other single cause”. The human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV has been one of the largest epidemics in history. “HIV continues to be a major global health issue, having claimed more than 34 million lives so far. In 2014, 1.2 [980,000-1.6 million] million people died from HIV-related causes globally” (World Health Organization, 2015, n.p.). Having a good understanding of HIV
First reported incidences of HIV were established in rural geographic areas prior to 1955 (Lemey et al., 2003). The virus then managed to quickly spread amongst larger populations resulting in a shift from an uncommon infection to a highly prevalent disease throughout 1955 to 1970. After the original outbreak, in 1994, further information regarding the infection was mandated to be reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 25 different states using a structured confidentiality report system (Prejean et al., 2011). With this provided system, the Global Programme on AIDS and the World Health Organization (1995) later concluded a total of 10,000 new cases develop each day.
The United Nations currently estimates that there are close to 34 million people in the world living with HIV. New infections with HIV have a very rapid rate of approximately 16,000 every day and 6
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are complex diseases that are generally misunderstood and cast a stereotype of the people who are infected. A disease that is relatively new in comparisons to some diseases came to light as a public issue in the 1980’s and is now known around the world. HIV and AIDS attack the T-cells and CD4 cells of a person’s body which make them have symptoms similar to the flu. This disease is exactly what the name describes , an immune deficiency that lead to a lowered immune system cause a weakened body. HIV is a disease that continues to attack a person’s body and progresses until it turns in the final stage which was named AIDS. It is not a definitive progressive because not all cases of HIV will lead to AIDS, some will just maintain HIV for the rest of their life.
Human immunodeficiency infection (HIV) is the infection which causes the illness, AIDS. Contamination with that infection harms the human body 's insusceptible (safeguard) framework and permits life-undermining diseases to create. HIV has no known cure or antibody for counteractive action. Accessible therapeutic learning shows that transmission of HIV is basically through sexual contact or offering intravenous medication gear to somebody who has a HIV disease. It additionally can be spread from a contaminated mother to her child some time recently, or amid, conveyance and through bosom nourishing. HIV can 't be transmitted through easygoing contact, for example, sharing nourishment or beverage, touching surfaces, shaking hands, dry kissing, or cooperating. HIV can 't be transmitted by mosquitoes or different bugs.
According to the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, in the early 1980s, the number of people diagnosed with HIV was a increasing steadily. From 1987 to 1990 the cumulative number of HIV diagnoses reported was almost doubled (from 8,016 to 15,166) (1, 2). Between 1990 and 1997 there were between 2,000 and 2,700 HIV diagnoses reported annually.(3) From 1999 there was a huge rate of increase in the number of annual HIV Infected people, peak period was in 2005 standing at 7,982. During Past subsequent years, a slight decrease in the number of HIV diagnoses was found, but now a day’s number of new diagnoses is still higher compared with that of pre-2003 period.
There is a global trend that HIV/AIDS has prevailed the globe. According to the UNAIDS, at the end of the year 2015 there were approximately 36.7 million people around the world infected with HIV/AIDS including the estimated 2.1 million individuals worldwide who were newly infected in that year. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that a limit of 54% of HIV/AIDS individuals know that they’re infected. It also indicates that two thirds of the reported case (approximately 25.6 million people) occupy the sub-Saharan Africa region. With respect to the HIV/AIDS related mortality, the WHO provides an estimation of 35 million AIDS-related deaths since the start of the epidemic (including 1.1 million in 2015). The UNAIDS indicates that only a fraction of 17 million people living with HIV/AIDS were accessing its antiretroviral therapy (ART) globally. This signifies that the majority of people living with HIV/AIDS still do not have access to the treatment, care, and transmission prevention of the disease, and this would go back to one of the two possible reasons: either their country doesn’t have these medical services available, or if it does, then they do not have enough money to access the treatment in it or abroad. Therefore, the statistics provided convey a relation between the epidemic and the societal and economic conditions of the patients’ countries. This socioeconomic relation appears in the form of many negative social and
The history of the awful words AIDS and HIV has distressed the world for the past 40 years. It has infused panic in the world from its illness, fear, and regrettably death. AIDS was announced to the world in 1980. It is highly believed that this illness began in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to this time, it is undetermined of the number of people infected developed AIDS or HIV because there were not many visible warnings or symptoms. Some researchers note that by the mid 1970’s the virus was current but not recorded as the virus due to not having the knowledge of the disease. By 1980, it is believed that the AIDS and HIV illness had already wandered to five continents, infecting approximately 100,000 to 300,000 people.