HIV stands for the Human Immuno Virus, and it is very much like a germ. Just like viruses and germs, they can cause us to get the flu, diarrhea, infections, etc., but with HIV, once you got the virus, it is yours till death do you part. In other words, there is no cure for it. You don’t actually die from the HIV virus, but you die from what it does to your immune system. The HIV virus attacks your immune systems T4 (CD4) helper cells and essentially destroys them. These T4 cells are the little guys that make you feel better when you get sick, because they help your body (i.e. immune system) to grow a defense system agai

In any event, acceptance of the HIV virus and AIDS has been growing throughout Africa recently, and their government, world organizations, and communities have tried to join a partnership to deal with the horrific HIV infections rate of Africa as a whole. In fact, there has never been such an international effort to fight one disease in history. Japan has given money to the African fight, along with the U.S., Nigeria, and many other nations. Drugs and drug cocktails have come to Africa, but are not really available, because they cost too much. There have been many talks for the governments of Africa to make the medications needed to prolong life available at a reduced cost, because without the reduced cost, people are going to die too fast anyway. A further idea is for the government to provide AZT and Nevaripine to pregnant women, because it can prevent HIV from being transmitted to the woman’s baby. However, this idea was shortened, because it was seen as not economically possible.

With the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa, many question as to how it came about and specifically its origin. To the best knowledge of today, it is theorized that the HIV strand came from a human that had sex with a primate. Specifically, I am talking about sex with a monkey, because monkeys carry a Simian type of virus that closely resemble the HIV virus, and this is the closest origin that experts can tell. However, there are other theories or ideas, and one of them include two polio researchers from the late fifties to the early sixties. The two research doctors, Arno Motulsky and Jean Vandepitte had made polio vaccines and to perfect them, thy cultured them in primates (monkeys) tissues (the dead ones that had already been sacrificed). Then they had given this vaccine, known as CHAT to almost one million Africans between 1957 and 1960, before they ever gave it to a White man. In any event, the blood samples from this time are the furthest back hat the HIV virus can be traced. To make a long story short, all the blood samples that were tested from the CHAT vaccine all tested positive in those people who lived within a 160km radius of the CHAT site, which was in Congo (Africa). Finally, here are those people that still believe that HIV and AIDS do not exist today.

The new global killer is on a rampage, and one of its biggest targets is the continent of Africa. Dr. Ghosh, at San Diego State University says, “that Africa has been hit so hard by HIV/AIDS, that they are going in a negative direction as far as replenishing their population.” In other words, so many are dying from the AIDS disease, that the people of Africa can’t reproduce enough to replenish those who have died. This is not to say that Africa’s birth rate is less than the death rate, because that is inaccurate. It is only to suggest that because of this AIDS epidemic, there are so many people that are infected, that they cannot produce enough health offspring to carry on their future generations survival. In fact, The Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Unit estimates that over half the death in Africa between the ages of 15 and 49 are now due to AIDS. Thus, I will now venture into the reasons, worries, ideas, strategies, and struggles that every African should realize when it comes to battling HIV and AIDS. The AIDS epidemic in Africa has become catastrophic, and people around the world must work together at all levels to ensure that the human race survives with as little blockades as possible.

In Africa, a woman by the name of Suzanne Leclerc-Medlala has brought about the issues of child rape that is becoming more and more common, because of the HIV virus. She says that more and more g

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