Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( Hiv ) / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( Aids )

The low income due to HIV/AIDS leads to low consumption of goods and little savings, which results in malnutrition, inability to combat illness and a lack of education and skills. The low capital worth, low

Donald Gaskin may be one of America’s most notorious serial killers, possibly killing over fifty men, women, and children, but the courts only convicted him of eight murders. One might say how could he get away with so many murders? The answer is multifarious, and as Fox and Levin dictated in Extreme Killing “It is difficult to gauge the full extent of serial homicides. Because of complexities in linking murders committed by the same perpetrator but at different times and even places, no precise estimate of a serial killer is even possible” (Fox & Levin, 2005). Forensic psychologists attempt to catch serial killers by profiling them based on the crime scene and the killer’s childhood, yet Gaskins was not a typical serial killer because his motives to kill altered from profit to sadistic thrills. Customers often paid him to kill their cheating spouse, enemy, or even parent, making it a full-time profession for Gaskins, but he often killed for the sadistic thrills and power due to his terrible childhood.

Did you know “AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa” (Quinn, online). Twenty percent of Africa’s population has died from AIDS. Poverty is a big problem in Africa. Men have been forced to become migrant workers in urban areas. And antiretroviral treatment at this time is not available to African people. AIDS is a big problem in Africa today that is now requiring help from the world.

Of the 35 million people living with HIV in the world, 19 million do not know their HIV-positive status. Adolescent girls and young women account for one in four new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa. Women are much more vulnerable to HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C than the general public. Which is supported by this excerpt from a recent AIDSTAR-One regional report “Women and girls often face discrimination in terms of access to education, employment and healthcare. In this region, men often dominate sexual relationships. As a result, women cannot always practice safer sex even when they know the risks involved. Gender-based violence has been identified as a key driver of HIV transmission in the region.” (Ellsberg, Betron 2010) Many children are affected by the disease in a number of ways: they live with sick parents and relatives in households drained of resources due to the epidemic, and those who have lost parents are less likely to go to school or continue their education. Studies in the regions of Southern Africa and South-East Asia have found HIV/AIDS to negatively impact both the demand for and supply of education. Orphaned children are either pulled out of school or not enrolled at all due to the financial constraints of

An upsetting pattern has risen inside of the previous couple of years, demonstrating a relentless increment of ladies being contaminated with HIV/AIDS every year. This pattern is particularly conspicuous in sub-Saharan Africa. While the illness is contaminating more ladies than any other time in recent memory and now represents about portion of those living with HIV around

The population of Botswana below the poverty line is 47% (CIA-The World Factbook-Botswana). Botswana 's people have very poor living conditions and many of the people do not have access to safe drinking water. After contracting the HIV virus, one 's immune system is much more susceptible to infectious diseases; these diseases are brought by the unsafe drinking water or the unacceptable living conditions. These more-susceptible people may catch infectious and fatal diseases. The poor people also have reduced access to health services. When Botswana 's HIV infected people are exposed to an unhealthy environment or unsafe water, they are very likely to be infected by diseases that their slowed immune systems cannot fight off. This results in many more deaths of AIDS infected people. Poverty can also cause more HIV transmission. It is common for young girls to have sex with men to get money to pay for schooling or food (AIDS in Africa). This is not right and is putting these young girls at risk of infection; young girls should not need money bad enough to have to get it from a man by having sex with him. Also, with poverty comes a lack of education, education about the horrors of AIDS and how to prevent it. There needs to be a solution for the half of Botswana that lives in poverty and does not receive a proper

There are a number of global trends that are affecting poor women. Gender, biology and poverty are linked together and are causing women to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases and reproductive tract infections. Poor women are being denied the health care and reproductive care that they desperately need. By ignoring the care that they need, we are deteriorating their lives, the lives of their families and their communities.

Discrimination of all sorts is known as one of the most controversial problems we have in our world. Humans want to see people who are like to them, it's natural instinct to focus on racial groups, religion, sex, and color. They are some countries in the world that are more free than others, such as the United States of America. Unfortunately, there are still certain groups of people who don't show respect to minorities and immigrants. It is essential to respect each person, and that every individual can be given the same opportunities. Despite efforts to combat discrimination, the act still manages to exist through prejudice and stereotypes in schools, workplaces, and daily life.

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus (Avert). It is virus that attacks the immune system, our body’s defense against disease (Avert). Individuals who become infected with HIV will find it harder to fight infections (Avert). HIV is located in semen, blood, vaginal and anal fluids, and breast milk (HIV and Aids). The most common method to become infected is through anal or vaginal sex without a condom (HIV and Aids). Other forms of contraction include using infected needles/ syringes, from mother to child during pregnancy, or breastfeeding (HIV and Aids). If left untreated, AIDS can evolve, this is when a person’s immune system becomes too weak to fight infection and can no longer defend itself (What is AIDS). Despite there not being a cure, an early diagnosis and effective treatment can enable people to live a normal, healthy life (HIV and Aids). This paper will focus on the HIV epidemic. It will compare and contrast HIV in the United States and in Kenya. The paper will review the specific populations affected, testing and counseling centers, funding and economic impact, and prevention programs each country is executing.

HIV/AIDS brings about hunger indirectly first through the economy. It is normal to have more than one sexual partner at a time in most sub-Saharan countries and this creates a “HIV super highway”. In fact, seventeen percent of the health-care workers in sub-Saharan Africa died from AIDS since 2005, and this is a lot considering only 480 people out of 48,000,000 people work in health-care in Tanzania. To detect HIV, physicians use a CD4 test, which uses expensive equipment, electricity, and trained technicians. Even after detection, the ARVs are too expensive to stay on for two long. If ARV resistance does occur, more expensive second-line therapy may be necessary. Even Peter Piot, the director of an AIDS prevention program, said “Projections now suggest that some countries in sub-Saharan Africa will face economic collapse unless they bring their epidemics under control”. Tanzanians, who do get treatment, hardly have enough money to buy food for a week, and with an average of five kids per family, most will starve.

Overall, the crisis of HIV/AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa is still a major issue. Perhaps the biggest factor is that developed nations have become fairly complacent when considering the disease, as not only has its prevalence dropped significantly in most areas, but treatment through anti-retroviral regimens has managed to increase an infected person’s lifespan to a level almost matching an uninfected person’s average lifespan. Those in sub-Saharan Africa face several key issues with this disease. A lack of education regarding HIV/AIDS and a lack of health care facilities and medication to combat HIV/AIDS are perhaps two of the largest. The country unfortunately faces an upcoming crisis, with the youngest generation’s parents and caregivers becoming too sick or succumbing to the disease before vital education, such as the ability to farm a landscape suffering from desertification, is passed on (Sowing Seeds of Hunger).

According to the government study, poverty is the most important factor in the inner- city heterosexuals are more infected with AIDS virus. According to the studies, HIv is the more epidemic in poverty urban areas. Therefore, poor heterosexuals in those areas were twice as likely to be infected compared to the heterosexuals that lived in that same community but had more money. According to the

The first most important root causes of AIDS in Africa is social-economic. Nearly 40 percent of Africa's population lives on less than US $1 a day and barely surviving on less than US $2 in a week (Poku). Living in poverty means many families are unable to provide all the proteins and nutrition one body needs. Lack of nutrients to the immune system cause it to weaken and once it fails to work it is unable to resist any virus that attacks it. The second most important cause of AIDS in Africa is the cultural force. Many Africans believes that people who

Early epidemiological studies in the 1980’s aimed to identify the mode of transmission of HIV (De Cock et al., 2012). Findings from these studies have described the spread of HIV/AIDS to mainly occur through sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission, and parenteral (blood-borne) transmission and these findings have driven subsequent research and prevention efforts in order to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS (De Cock et al., 2012) (Handsfield, 2011). HIV/AIDS is a great cost to nations both directly and indirectly,

Countries with high national debts and low GNP such as Mozambique experience greater difficulties in providing the care and support to the infected and affected. HIV/AIDS results in greater number of illness and death especially among the working class. This results in increased cases of absenteeism which results in more work for employees already present required to stand in for their colleagues hence leading to higher overtime