Human Immune Deficiency Virus ( Hiv )

brief introduction to the topic of HIV/AIDS, (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Human Immune Deficiency) from its early appearance as a deadly communicable disease that causes a viral infection in humans. During the 1960’s the infection was largely due to unprotected sex; the victims contracted the disease mostly due to unprotected sexual contacts from others who already had the virus. It became an epidemic and even pandemic. Those infected eventually died from HIV/AIDS as it came to be known, and…

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is one of the deadliest pandemics the world has ever known. Unprecedented efforts and resources have been mobilized to fight the infection worldwide. While obvious progress has been made, HIV infection still hit hard and the field of public health continues actively to raise awareness about this issue and help affected people. Public health professionals constantly look for new ways to reach high-risk populations, but…

Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome In 1981, the first cases in the United States of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) developed in Los Angeles and New York (Fraser, Burd, Liebson, Lipschik, & Peterson, 2008). The illness presented itself among several homosexual males who developed rare opportunistic infections such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma (Sharp & Hahn, 2011). At the time, medical professionals deemed the infections to be…

Immunopathology of Human Immuno deficiency virus (HIV) Introduction - a bit about the history of the discovery of the virus, then how it came to be known as aids, where the virus is thought to come from, include transmission Human immuno deficiency virus, (HIV) belongs to the genus Lentivirinae, a Retroviridae, which is a family of enveloped retro viruses. It was first described in 1983, when a case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported, two years earlier. The disease was characterised…

A major epidemic across the world is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Accredited with 10% of the HIV cases annually is injection drug use (AIDS.gov, 2014). A study done in 2010 showed that injection drug use affected nearly 47,500 new HIV infections in the United States. With 625 being males and 38% being female. Breaking it down even further, African Americans made up 50% of the newly affecting using injection drugs, Whites 26%, and Latinos/ Hispanics…

Pathogenic Agent Identified Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Virus after the infection of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the immune system is damaged so the body become targets of many opportunistic diseases, which called syndrome, rather than just a type of disease. [1] History of Pathogenic Agent The clinical of AIDS was first observed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981. [2] The region most recent outbreak…

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) /Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is present around the world. HIV weakens the body’s immune system by attacking its defences against disease this later develops into AIDS which causes for the body to be unable to fight of illness and diseases it usually could (Afao.org.au, 2015). Chad a country of Sub Saharan Africa has an estimated 210,000 people living with HIV/Aids. Working to decrease this a number promotional incentives are being run such as the…

Human immune-deficiency virus is often abbreviated to “HIV”, and it is one of the most feared sexually transmitted diseases in this generation. The virus replicates and destroys the T cells of the body that is meant to suppress and control infections. As the T cells deteriorates, the body becomes more vulnerable to infections and diseases, and the immune system weakens more until it eventually leads to death if left uncontrolled. This paper is designed to identify the problem or disease process,…

Adolescents and HIV in Atlanta Georgia The Human Immune-deficiency Virus is an epidemic that has devastated the world since its discovery in the year 1981. Over 30 million people in the US have succumbed to the epidemic while close to 1.1 million people are now living with the disease. Young people in the US are the most vulnerable group and are continually at high risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. About 39% of reported HIV cases are among youths aged between 13-29 years (Granich et al. 2011). Various…

Introduction The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) do not seem to be a major topic of discussion in the World today. Especially within the United States, HIV and AIDS are not conversed about as openly as perhaps it was in the past two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the end of 2010 there were approximately 1.1 million people living in the United States with the HIV virus. Of those 1.1 million people…