AIDS

HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo There are abounding countries in the world that struggle with the rate of HIV/AIDS. One of these countries being the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although Democratic Republic of Congo is not one of the top ten African countries with HIV/AIDS, they have had a massive spread throughout the years. Even though they have done many things to try to prevent the spread, rates are still high. Things that one will discover while learning about this topic will

Kristina Nguyen HIV and AIDS The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Auto Immune Deficiency Disease (AIDS) are one of the leading killers around the world. Statistics provided by the Joint United Nations Program approximate that over 33 million people have been infected with HIV and AIDS. Of those 33 million, 1.1 million of those carriers are in the United States and even more shockingly, a fifth of those carriers are unaware that they have been infected. The World Health Organization estimated

AIDS has also taken a greater toll on certain ethnic groups. In 2004 the American Journal of Public Health released a study that showed that AIDS has a disproportionate effect upon Latino women, and represents the fourth leading cause of death for Latinas aged 25 to 44 years old. It was also noted that 38.3% of Mexican-American women had not received any sex education in schools. Around half received no sex education from their parents. The journal also reported that parents in Latino families generally

Bathhouses and The AIDS Epidemic Sexual institutions are a part of everyday life. They consist of proms, weddings, sex shops, escort services, brothels and several others. One sexual institution that is not as well known is gay bathhouses. Bathhouses, like all other sexual institutions, provide a legitimate social space to be sexual. They are organized around the pursuit of sex (Seidman, Fischer, and Meeks 2011). Upon entering the bathhouse, men usually strip from their clothes and most walk the

what they believe is the earliest case of AIDs in a man from the Congo in 1959. (Lerner and Hombs 39) By the end of the year 1980, 80 men would have been diagnosed with at least of the opportunistic infections that are a characteristic of AIDs. (Lerner and Hombs 40) AIDs cases in the 1980s increased dramatically not only around the world but in the United States, primarily in larger cities like Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. The numbers of AIDs diagnoses and deaths spiraled out of control

Introduction HIV and AIDS may be not as common as it used to be, but its danger is everlasting. HIV is an STD that attacks the immune system. If left untreated, the disease will progress into AIDS. After a few years, the immune system will no longer be able to defend itself, leaving it vulnerable to opportunistic infections. In most cases, a person with HIV will show no symptoms of any kind. Meaning that they will not pursue treatment and will resume their sex life. Since HIV is a viral STD and not

Lauren Kennedy United States HIV/AIDS Part 1: Background of Topic: What became later known as aids was detected in West Africa when scientists identified a species of chimpanzees that had a version of this virus in their immune system. They later found out that the disease was transmitted to humans and created into HIV when people hunted these animals for food and came in contact with their infected blood. Decade after decade this illness swooped over Africa like a blanket and began to spread to

When AIDS first emerged, no-one could have predicted how the epidemic would spread across the world and how many millions of lives it would change. There was no real idea what caused it, and consequently, no real idea how to protect against it. Now, in 2004, we know from bitter experience that AIDS is caused by the virus HIV, and that it can devastate families, communities and whole continents. We have seen the epidemic knock decades off countries' national development, widen the gulf between rich

1. Government’s strategies in Brazil and India are different concerning the prevention of AIDS via the marketing of condoms. Brazilian strategy allows the prevention of AIDS, which is a good thing in a country like Brazil (“half a million Brazilians are infected with the virus”). The government is getting closer of people with high risk but is still insufficient. As the text said, Brazil is the second highest number of reported HIV infections in America after the U.S. Unlike the Brazilian government

When the AIDS epidemic first exploded, the majority of the general public chose to ignore the disease due to the fact that it mainly struck the LGBT population. It was up to members of the LGBT community to spread awareness not only on how to prevent the illness, but about the very existence of AIDs itself. Unfortunately, access to such information was stalled due to the lack of available methods of communication, leaving LGBT people as unsuspecting victims even to this day. The development of the