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AIDS "The Killer"

             AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease caused by a virus.
             The AIDS virus attacks the white blood cells in our body, causing certain infections and conditions that our body would normally fight off with no problem to be fatal. The virus breaks down the body's immune system, leaving a person defenseless to fight against unusual life threatening illnesses.
             The ignorance about the disease and the way it can be transmitted has contributed to its growth. According to research, AIDS can be transmitted during sexual contact, blood contamination, IV drug users and contamination from blood transfusions because of infected blood. The epidemic is also killing heterosexual and non-drug users, as well as homosexuals. A woman who is infected with the AIDS virus may spread the disease to her baby during pregnancy or during birth. The virus affects people differently. Some people do not get ill at all; some develop mild symptoms while other develop severe symptoms and die. AIDS is a nationwide epidemic. AIDS is not a truly new disease. It is a disease that have been newly discovered. For all we know Aids have been around for many years, but we didn't know what it was. .
             In Manchester England, a British sailor was presenting himself to doctors. He had suffered for nearly two years. A variety of puzzling symptoms, including strange purplish lesions on his back and shoulders. In 1958 his condition had taken a turn for the worse, but sadly just before Christmas. Almost everything he did left him breathless, the slightest exertion. A very upsetting case of night sweats had come across his path. The young sailor lost an alarming amount of weight and developed a spiking Fever. Day by day, the sailor grew weaker and weaker. August of 1359 the sailor died. An autopsy found evidence of pneumonia. The doctors could not explain the patient's low resistance to the infection. The patient's immune system was weak and could not fight off the disease.


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1. Africa - An AIDS Epidemic

... from wars, car accidents, plane crashes, shootings, and the like, but now the whole world is witnessing the new global killer. It doesn't matter whether you are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White or other, the global killer doesn't find its preference in any group. It merely attacks whomever it can. This global killer is known as HIV/AIDS. 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 ....

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2. Hiv And Aids

... that are serious and may lead to dealth. When AIDS weakens the immune system the person infected has a higher rate of getting sick. They do not have the ability to fight off the bacteria and virus that we fight off everyday. Even the common cold can put them in the hospital for days. One of the leading killer of people with AIDS is pneumonia, just imagine how sick it makes ... healthy people let alone a person without a strong immune system. HIV can be contratced in different ways. The virus can be contracted ... . Everyday more people throughout this world are contracting HIV and AIDS....

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3. aids report

... that were diagnosed in 1981 to 149,902 AIDS cases in the year 1989. In the year 1982 the term AIDS was established; which stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. During 1983 the most important discovery of the virus (HIV) is credited to the Institute Pasteur in France. As time ventured with AIDS increasing and people dying the first international conference was held in Atlanta 1985 ... , and are also involved in immunity to extra cellular pathogens by providing "help" for the antibody response (Browning). These CD4 T cells are usually called the "helper" cells. These cells enhanc...

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4. The Comeback Of TB

... off America's screens in the 1950's as the invention of antibiotics became the problem solver. As problems with the disease became domestically solved, funding for the cause decreased under the assumption that other areas would begin to win the fight against TB as well. They never did. Currently new strains of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB are now the world's biggest killer, second only to the AIDS virus. Explanations of how ... TB returned are present, as well as explanations of the areas in most dire need of attention. The synergistic effects that AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease...

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5. The Comeback of TB

... off America's screens in the 1950's as the invention of antibiotics became the problem solver. As problems with the disease became domestically solved, funding for the cause decreased under the assumption that other areas would begin to win the fight against TB as well. They never did. Currently new strains of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB are now the world's biggest killer, second only to the AIDS virus. Explanations of how ... TB returned are present, as well as explanations of the areas in most dire need of attention. The synergistic effects that AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease...

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6. AIDS In Africa

... has greatly surpassed the number of people affected in the United States. Rich Mkhondo revealed that AIDS surpasses malaria and war as the biggest killer in Africa. Unlike other countries, where the disease has spread among homosexuals and intravenous drug users, most of the infections in Africa are the result of heterosexual sex. South Africa continues to be the most severely hit region of Africa by the AIDS virus. Louise Vis ... Carton states that South Africa has the highest number of HIV ... ...

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7. AIDS

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8. AIDS

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9. The Cobsprcies Surrounding AIDS In Africa

... , especially Baffour Ankomah feels that a great deal of the problem lies with the numbers and not just those in the cemetery. He states, " Why are Africans not allowed to die of old diseases, malaria is the proven number one killer of Africans yet it gets no attention at all, isn't it because AIDS puts more money in the pockets of establishments and researchers than malaria." (Baffour, New ... African) Some Africans believe that the numbers of AIDS cases in Africa are simply ... made up. Because the AIDS epidemic has yet to reach huge proportions in the US the scientists need patients t...

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