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Individual Aids Patient T Cell Cultures
5,794 wordsIntroduction In 1982, Robert Gallo from the National Cancer Institute in the USA, put forward the hypothesis that the cause of AIDS is a retrovirus. One year later, Myron Essex and his colleagues (1) found that AIDS patients had antibodies to the Human T-cell Leukemia virus Type-1 (HTLV-I), a virus discovered by Gallo a few years earlier. At the same time, Gallo and his colleagues (2) reported the isolation of HTLV-I from AIDS patients and advocated a role for this retrovirus in the pathogenesis...
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Hiv Aids Patients
4,433 wordsAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Today, despite the continuing production of better antibiotics since the discovery of penicillin, we are facing an infectious disease against which all these drugs are virtually powerless. This disease is spreading inexorably, killing more people and more people each year. AIDS does not know no national boundaries and does not discriminate by race or sex. It is rampaging not only throughout the United States, but also through Africa, India, China, Russi...
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Hiv Aids
2,931 wordsAs an outsider who shares many values with sincere and faithful Christians, I am troubled with the apparent lack of effectiveness of their most common approaches to the current HIV crisis. The Christian ultimate objective of saving souls is not universally shared, and arguments from that perspective will not be persuasive to a general audience. However, even if we were all to agree to that goal, the current Christian approaches are allowing far to many bodies and souls to be taken by HIV. The ap...
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Children Of Parents With Aids
831 wordsSO CW 2361 Research Project 4-04-02 Research Question: How does a child cope with the loss of a parent who suffered from AIDS: Introduction: This research study will show the challenges that children face when dealing with the loss of a parent due to the AIDS virus. The sources for the research have come from the Tarrant County College Resource Center, online internet sites, and an interview with a social worker, Rebecca Wright, from the AIDS Outreach Center Youth Services Program. Abstract: The...
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Hiv Infection And Aids Prevention
2,238 wordsAfrican Americans who live in low-income communities are more likely to engage in unprotected sexual activities than those who live in higher-income communities. ii Table of Contents Chapter Page /'s I. The Problem 1-2 II. Theoretical Framework 3-5 . Hypothesis 6 IV. Population and Design 7-8 V. Conclusion 9-10 VI. Bibliography 11-121 I. Problem Little to nothing was known about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) when it first erupted in the 1970's. When the epidemic finally reached noti...
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People In Our Class
262 wordsI was very impressed with the guest speaker that gave our class the presentation last week. It was informative and necessary for college students to be given the information that was provided. I live in a large suburban city outside of Detroit and all of the information provided by her was information that I already had. I was flabbergasted that so many people in our class were embarrassed or afraid to speak and a few people even stuttered when saying the words "penis" or "erection". These are n...
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Early Accusation Of Homosexuality Towards Piazza
624 wordsThe question of sexual identity is asked to many professional athletes when they are first diagnosed with HIV or tested positive for the AIDS virus. Magic Johnson is a five time championship winner with the Los Angeles Lakers, awarded MVP three times, and played amongst the first nine Olympic All-Star teams (Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame). Despite these great achievements in his life, his contact with the HIV virus caused him to face much discrimination. Although Johnson's source of ...
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High Risk For Hiv 1 Infection
1,812 wordsThe following are facts cited in Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome by Gerald J. Stine. Worldwide, about 9,000 persons a day become HIV-infected. The majority of all HIV infections worldwide occur in people ages 15-24. Over 1 million people die of AIDS each year. The number of HIV-infections worldwide has tripled since 1990! It is estimated that there will be a 20% decline in population in East Africa by the year 2001 due to AIDS (Stine, 360). AIDS is the leading cause of deaths among adult men...
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Shortage Of Condoms In Uganda
533 wordsAIDS envoy demands US give more condoms By Lawrence Altman August 31, The US Government's emphasis on abstinence programs to prevent AIDS is hobbling Africa's battle against the pandemic by playing down the role of condoms, a top United Nations official has charged. The UN secretary-general's special envoy for HIV / AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, said 'Christian ideology' was driving the US AIDS assistance program with disastrous results such as a shortage of condoms in Uganda. The charges were ...
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Continent Of Africa The Hiv Epidemic
3,596 wordsThe AIDS epidemic has reached disastrous proportions on the continent of Africa. Over the past two decades, two thirds of the more than 16 million people in the world infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, live in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now home to the largest number of people infected, with 70 percent of the world's HIV infected population. The problem of this ongoing human tragedy is that Africa is also the least equipped region in the world to cope with all th...
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Being Hiv Positive
1,534 wordsAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: AIDS AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a blood born disease that was first recognized in America in the early 1980's, around the time Rock Hudson passed away. It is believed that it was first passed thru to humans by monkey's in Africa. "The battle between humans and disease was nowhere more bitterly fought than here in the fetid equatorial climate, where heat and humidity fuel the generation of new life forms. One historian has suggested that hum...
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Incumbent President Of Namibia Sam Nujoma
1,758 wordsGovernment and Political Conditions Namibia has a multiparty system with about forty political groups all ranging from modern political parties to more traditional tribes or ethnic groups. They also have a bill of rights; and a system of checks and balances for the three branches of government. The ultimate authority rests with the President (currently President Sam Nujoma) who is the head of state, head of government, and the commander in chief of the armed forces. The President of Namibia is e...
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Aids And Hiv
718 wordsAIDS: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome I am doing a report on AIDS, I don't know much about AIDS but I will tell you what I know. I know that it is transmitted by sexual contact, blood, needles, children during / before birth. I also know it affects the immune system directly, It is caused by the virus HIV which they have no cure for either AIDS or HIV at the current moment, but they are doing serious research on them. I call it the 'Generation X Disease' because it mostly affects my sex-orien...
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Post Haart Teens
822 wordsTeenagers infected with HIV are more likely to engage in risky sex and drug use since the introduction of powerful medicines that effectively keep AIDS at bay, a new study finds. The trend, which began surfacing after highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) were introduced in 1996, points to the need for targeted interventions to reduce risky behavior and improve quality of life for those in this group, the researchers noted. Roughly a quarter of the 40,000 new HIV infections in the Unite...
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Media Coverage Of Hiv Aids
807 wordsThis study used content analysis to identify dominant AIDS-HIV themes in the manifest news content of AP, Reuters, AFP, ITAR-TASS, and IPS. A systematic random sample of AIDS-HIV stories disseminated by the five wire services between May 1991 and May 1997 (both months included) was obtained. This decade was selected because several empirical studies of coverage in the 1980's have been conducted; however, few studies examine the 1990's. The decision to examine the print news media was driven by t...
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Immunization And Cure For Hiv Aids
3,707 wordsAIDS: THE MILLENIA L BUG By: Elizabeth Kelly, SPN January 1, 2000 INTRODUCTION At the beginning of the 20th Century it was believed by many, including the United States Patent Office, that there was nothing else to invent. Now, 100 years later at the beginning of the new millennium the ancient Egyptian philosopher is more relevant, 'there is nothing new under the Sun'. While HIV / AIDS may be a new disease, there is nothing new about a novel epidemic, which can potentially or actually decimate a...
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Spread Of Aids And Hiv
1,152 wordsIntroduction It is during the ages of 18 and 24 that time of life that many adults are sexually active but not always in monogamous relationships. It is a time of life when one can easily contract either AIDS or another STD due to behavior. Young adults are working during the day and doing their socializing at night, and this socializing almost always includes substances such as alcohol and drugs to help alter their mood, or judgments. Thus causing the person to become easily overcome with doing...
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Society's Attitudes Towards Aids And Plwas
2,843 wordsAIDS Related Stigma Since the appearance of AIDS in the late seventies and early eighties, the disease has had attached to it a significant social stigma. This stigma has manifested itself in the form of discrimination, avoidance and fear of people living with AIDS (PLWAs). As a result, the social implications of the disease have been extended from those of other life threatening conditions to the point at which PLWAs are not only faced with a terminal illness but also social isolation and const...
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Virus Hiv 1
1,332 wordsIn some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes, efficient and organized industries, complex computerized machinery and atomic weapons. Many societies are governed by a democratic system which herald a belief in freedom. All societies, regardless of their political and economic makeup, are also ruled by a s...
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Aids Symptoms After Hiv Infection
4,812 wordsAIDS: A U.S. - Made Monster? PREFACE In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret', Prof J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret' is the international edition of the German magazine Geheimb and is considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming N...
