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Aids Epidemic

            
             This terrifying disease has shattered lives all over the planet and will continue to fester within our population. HIV/AIDS is one of the most untamed diseases in our country and will continue to be one of the most devastating epidemics in the United State's history.
             Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in the United States when doctors in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco began to notice a recurrent diagnosis of Pneumoncystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and Karposi's sarcoma (KS) in young male homosexuals (Shilts pg. 60). This was suspicious at the time because both KS and PCP were not often found in young adults. (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu) What also added a bit of peculiarity was that KS was a type of benign skin cancer that was usually only found in older Jewish and Italian men (Shilts pg. 37), certainly a far cry from the young American men in their 20's . No one could fathom why these two diseases were becoming so heavily diagnosed and prevalent in young gay men. .
             There are many ideas of how AIDS actually got to America. Most believe that it originated in monkeys. The disease in monkeys however was called SIV (simian immune virus) opposed to HIV (human immune virus.) After much debate HIV is likely to have originated in West African chimpanzees, more specifically, Pan troglodytes (http://www.apnet.com). It is common belief that it was transferred to humans when monkeys were taken in as pets. When monkeys were taken in as pets their were often instances where bites would occur thus having blood transferred from the monkey to the human. Another way it has been believed to be spread was keeping monkey's as pets then they were often kept until they were hearty enough to kill for food (http://www.apnet.com). Monkey meat, or more commonly known in Africa as "bush meat" was a large market (http://history.acused.edu). Slaughtering the monkey was often a somewhat gruesome process that took place in less than sanitary conditions where gloves weren't worn or proper precautions weren't taken and even eating it could've caused the SIV to transfer into the humans blood stream therefore giving them the virus.


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1. AIDS In Africa

... with HIV, up by more than one-third over 1998" (Mwangi 12). In Botswana, the proportion of the adult population living HIV has doubled over the last five years. The AIDS epidemic in Africa has created several problems. One major problem for the continent is that fact that several people are continuously being infected every day by this deadly disease. According to ... many companies to decline because of the lack of healthy employees. The African economy will be faced with tremendous problems because of the AIDS epidemic. Some companies have reported a doubling of their health bills. In...

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2. Aids in Africa

... Indirect cost will include lost work time due to illness, recruitment and training costs to replace workers, and care of orphans. We have based our presentation of the AIDS epidemic on three country's with a prominent AIDS problem: Uganda, South Africa, and Senegal. However, for the economic part of this discussion it is very difficult to divide our analysis into different countries. Besides ... spend the money they have on maintaining health, or for other objective such as research, improvement of technological medical advancements, etc. The transportation system is also vulnerable to th...

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3. The Spread of AIDS in the African-American community

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4. The Economic Impact of AIDs in Africa

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5. The Aids Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

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6. Africa - An AIDS Epidemic

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7. HIV And AIDS

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8. AIDS In Africa

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9. AIDS

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10. AIDS in Africa

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