... into every corner of society, affecting parents children, teachers, health workers, white, black, rich, poor. I am talking about the leading cause of death in Sub-Sahara Africa - I am talking about the epidemic that has cut life expectancy by more than 10 years - yes I am talking about HIV/AIDS. So what is ... weakened defenses. You have heard it said that someone "died of AIDS-. This is not entirely accurate, since it is the opportunistic infections that cause death. AIDS is only the condition that lets the opportunistic infections take hold. So what is HIV? HIV is a virus like flu or co...

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... , California began treating patients with what appeared to be primary Pneumocystis Carnii pneumonia; a disease seen secondarily, and only in immunocompromised individuals. Upon receiving this report, the CDC placed calls to facilities in New York and San Francisco discovering similar cases in these areas. These patients exhibited other opportunistic diseases such as Kopsii's sarcoma, ... associated with AIDS made it difficult to obtain necessary data quickly enough. Epidemiologists struggled to isolate the virus because it exhibited a rapid cell death in the laboratory. Until the diseas...

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... many diseases known as opportunistic infections. Viruses that usually don't affect a person can make an AIDS patient very sick and sometimes cause death. This occurs because the virus attacks the immune system, which the AIDS virus has weakened (What is AIDS, 1997). The most common diseases patient contracts when he or she has AIDS are PCP (pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), KS (Kaposi's sarcoma), CMV (cytomegalovirus), and ... of testing for HIV is RIPA (Radio-Immuno-Precipitation Assay), which takes time to process. It requires an incubation period to allow the test serum and the viral ...

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... to 900,000 people who are HIV-positive, and over 300,000 people who are living with AIDS. It is now the leading cause of death of men, and the 4th leading cause of death in women between the ages of 25 and 44 in the United States. This rate was even higher during the1990s, when no one knew very much about this virus; however there ... 's office, or clinic. HIV testing includes pretest counseling and an explanation of the benefits of testing. The first test called the ELIS A test shows if you have signs of HIV in the blood (looks for antibodies in the blood, which are special molecules th...

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... present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. There currently is neither a cure, not even an effective treatment, nor a vaccine. There are things that have been proven immensely effective in slowing the spread of this lethal disease. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 20 ... allowed us to make our blood bank blood supply far safer also allowed us to be able to tell (in most cases) whether one has been exposed to the AIDS virus using a simple blood test. The...

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... Disease Control and Prevention reports that 2.2 million Americans now carry the HIV virus but do not yet have symptoms. Each year, about 40,000 new HIV infections occur in the U.S. AIDS is a leading cause of death for American men and women between the ages of 25 and 44. Through June 2000, 438,795 people in the U.S. had died from AIDS (374,422 men and 64 ... ,373 women). By the end of 2000, 36.1 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS ... condition in both women and men is a lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia , abbreviated PCP. Other AIDS-defining conditions...

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... of HIV. Doctors confirm a positive result by using the Western Blot test. This test detects lower levels of HIV antibodies. During this, a blood sample is place on a paper strip with HIV proteins and if antibodies are present, they bind with the HIV proteins, changing the color on the paper. The ELISA and the Western Blot test combined is more than 99.9 percent accurate within weeks following ... exposure. Physicians differentiate between people who have HIV and those who have AIDS. The CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia, recommends that ... to return to...

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... has tested positive to all three tests will be reported as postitive for HIV. If the results are inconclusive, the test is repeated in four to six weeks. If the results were negative, the person is not clear from disease because the seroconversion takes up to three months after the inital infection enters the body. Transmission of HIV is very clear. Because a virus must have a host in order ... and will appear slightly sick. Before the end of the first year and until the eighth year, the person could have no symptoms. After ten to fourteen years, the disease advances into its terminal s...

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... or holding hands; shared use of dishes; public toilets drinking fountains; telephones; public transport; swimming pool, because of the chlorine in the water will automatically kill the virus; sweat tears or bytes are unlikely; kissing: casual contact through closed mouth or social kissing is not a ... theoretical potentials for contact with blood during French or open mouth kissing this activity is not recommended with the infected person. insects such as mosquitoes. Who should take the test man who have engaged in homosexual behavior; intravenous drug users; women who are considering pr...

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... an epidemic strain in Africa until 1930. The first proven AIDS death happened in the Congo in 1959. Between 1978-1981 a growing number of people in the US, Sweden, Tanzania, and Haiti began showing signs of what would later be called AIDS. 1983 The Institute Pasteur, France, identifies the HIV virus. 1985 The FDA approves the first antibody test for the HIV virus in humans and blood supplies. ... In the 90's researchers have discovered how the virus ... are women, and 1.2 million are children. An estimated 16.3 million people have died from AIDS. 12.7 million adults, 6.2 million women,...

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... 's capacity to ward off bacteria and viruses that would ordinarily be fought off by a properly functioning immune system, and it is the diseases, the opportunistic infections, caused by these outside agents that eventually kill the victim; or, death results from a form of cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, that is far more aggressive in AIDS patients than among those who do not suffer from AIDS. Thus, ... one can say that AIDS killed the person, since the addition of the "S" defines a syndrome: the collection of diseases and symptoms that resulted from the weakened immune system. Putting it anoth...

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... has more than doubled in the last six years. So for those of you who don't understand the risk here we go. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is caused by HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among persons twenty-five threw ... forty-four beating out suicide and homicide. There are forty-seven million persons world wide infected with HIV; most don't even know they have it. HIV attacks the Immune system which leaves the body vulnerable to common ... through a donated organ. HIV is not transmitted through casual contact such a...

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... to 28 percent in 1996. While Thailand has passed two out of the three "tests- of industrialization; it remains a developing country because not at least 10 percent of its workforces are employed in industry as required by the Sutchiffe's test number three (Thomas, 16). Regarding Thailand's social development, the World Bank reported the estimated population for July 2000 as 61,230,874 with an annual ... growth rate of .93 percent. The majority of Thai lives in rural areas with only 20.3 percent living in urban cities ... per thousand live births for infant and children under 5 years ol...

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... tests can show evidence of HIV infection. AIDS is a fatal disease that remains without a cure. Kimberly B. contracted HIV from her dentist and died of AIDS at age 23. She was the first reported case of doctor-to-patient transmission of HIV. Her dentist, Dr. David A., Florida kept practicing dentistry many years after knowing he was HIV-positive. There was no law ... had made an impassioned plea on television for new laws to protect patients, beginning a public campaign for mandatory HIV testing for all health workers (Tanner). The death Kimberly B. prompted the Center for Disease Contro...

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