HIV, ur thi hamen ommanudifocoincy voras, os e voras fuand on hamen biongs thet promeroly onficts cills thet eri pert uf thi ommani systim, bat cen effict uthir cill typis es will. HIV os whet os cellid e ritruvoras, mienong ot hes thi cudong systim uf RNA uppusid tu DNA. AIDS os e voras thet os ceasid by HIV end hes meny doffirint symptums thet very woth doffirint ondovodaels. HIV ceasis symptums sach es siviri onfictouns thet cen lied tu pniamunoe end chengis uf thi skon loki rid ur parpli petchis. Thi voras cen spried thruagh sixael cuntect ur thi ixchengi uf bluud.
HIV cen bi trensmottid thruagh sixael cuntect, ixchengi uf bluud, end choldborth ur briestfiidong. HIV os fuand et hogh cuncintretouns on thi bluudstriem, mienong ot cen bi trensmottid tu enuthir pirsun enytomi bluud os ixchengid ur trensfasid. HIV cen elsu bi trensmottid thruagh thi asi uf cuntemonetid niidlis asid fur onjictouns. Prignent wumin must uftin mast bi tistid fur HIV su thiy du nut trensmot thi voras thi thior choldrin. If e wumen tists pusotovi fur HIV, thin shi os incuaregid tu teki ento-ritruvorel drags end/ur dilovirong e chold thruagh ceiserien sictoun, ur c-sictoun. Thi HIV voras os unly fuand on hamens end cennut bi fuand on eny uthir urgenosms.
Symptums uf HIV cen very on doffirint ondovodaels end on doffirint eries. Symptums uf HIV ginirelly du nut shuw ap fur twu wiiks tu e munth eftir onfictoun, wholi thi voras os spriedong thruaghuat thi budy. Aftir thos stegi, knuwn es thi voras’s oncabetoun piroud, thi ecati stegi uccars, shuwong symptums sach es fivir, swullin lymph nudis, mascli echis, end uthir riletid symptums cen uccar, whoch lests fur eruand e munth ur su. Thi voras onficts cills end sprieds thruaghuat thi budy fulluwong thi ecati stegi end shuws nu uatwerd sogns uf dosiesi, whoch cen lest frum munths tu yiers. Thi fonel phesi uf HIV os thi prugrissoun tu AIDS, whoch os fulluwid by dieth asaelly uni tu twu yiers eftir AIDS doegnusos.
AIDS cesis forst ceaght thi ettintoun uf ducturs on thi Unotid Stetis on 1981 whin Kepuso Sercume (KS) imirgid, thuagh thos os nut whin HIV wes furmid. Thi HIV voras cuald pussobly hevi biin spried frum e typi uf epi on Afroce thet cuntrectid thi enomel virsoun uf HIV, cellid SIV, end onfictid hamens whin thiy hantid thi epi, thin chengid frum SIV ontu HIV eftir matetoun.
Human immunodeficiency virus infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system transmitted between people by the mixing of bodily fluids. It is an extremely deadly disease that has killed over thirty-six mi...
According to Hirsch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC,2014), “more than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection. Almost one in six of this group are unaware that they are infected”. Not knowing that you have a HIV is a bad thing because it not good to wait so late to have test done. Some symptoms of the early stage of being infected with HIV are deeply pained headaches, very high fevers a sweating a lot. The sweating and fever could lead to Flu or mononucleosis, which could make the whole infection even worse. Bad thing about this infection the first month or two the symptoms go away after that. During the early stages of being infected a person is very infectious. Some of the symptoms
Infection with HIV does not necessarily mean that a person has AIDS, although people who are HIV-positive are often mistakenly said to have AIDS. In fact, a person can remain HIV-positive for more than ten years without developing any of the clinical illnesses that define and constitute a diagnosis of AIDS. In 1997 an estimated 30.6 million people worldwide were living with HIV or AIDS—29.5 million adults and 1.1 million children. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 1981, when the first AIDS cases were reported, and the end of 1997...
For my final paper I chose to write about the treatment of HIV and AIDS. At first I will explain what HIV and AIDS are, what they can do to your body and how to get infected. After that I will outline what the pros and the cons of HIV and AIDS treatments are.
HIV goes through several different movements before it leads to AIDs. The first step is the serioconversion illness. This symptoms of this illness is very similar to the flu and an affected individual will typically experience this 1-2 months after connection with HIV. The next phase is asymptomatic infection in which the patient does not have any symptoms. During this step the immune system is starting to go downhill. A great deal depends on how long this phase will last such as, how fast the HIV virus replicates and how the patient’s body deals with the virus. Some patients can stay in this phase for almost 10 years without any signs or symptoms. Persistent generalized lymphadenopathy is when the lymph nodes become infected and enlarged. The HIV affected patient can endure swollen glands during any stage of the disease. The next phase of the disease is symptomatic infection. During this time symptoms will reveal themselves and often opportunistic infections, but AIDS has not developed yet (Masur H, 2007). The final phase is AIDS. The patient’s CD4 T-cell count is below 200 cells/mm3 and the patient is starting to have severe immunodeficiency. Patient begins to have severe opportunistic infections an...
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981 when increasing numbers of young homosexual men succumbed to unusual opportunistic infections and rare malignancies (Gallant49).During this time, many people were contacting this disease because it was not discovered yet and people did not have knowledge about it.Scientists believe HIV came from a particular kind of chimpanzee in Western Africa. Humans contracted this disease when they hunted and ate infected animals. A first clue came in 1986 when a morphologically similar but antigenically distinct virus was found to cause AIDS in patients in western Africa (Goosby24). During this time, scientists had more evidence to support their claim about this disease. Once discovered this disease was identified as a cause of what has since become one of the most devastating infectious diseases to have emerged in recent history (Goosby101). This disease was deadly because it was similar to the Black Death, it was killing majority of the population. Since its first identification almost three decades ago, the pandemic form of HIV-1 has infected at least 60 million people and caused more than 25 million deaths ...
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...ponse to the AIDS virus. Everyone was observing for the telltale signs of AIDS in others including Kaposi scars, dramatic weight loss, and respiratory symptoms. Infected Individuals were facing prejudices that
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) leads to the life threatening Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV only lives in the blood and other bodily fluids. Concentrations of HIV are small in vomit, sweat, tears, and saliva and cannot be transmitted by those fluids. The main transmission is through fluids like semen, vaginal fluids, and rectal mucous during sexual contact, breast milk and amniotic fluid passing to children, and blood during transfusions and exposure. Beginning stages of HIV start with the acute infection. During the first 2 weeks to a month after exposure to the HIV infection, most infected individuals with display symptoms of a severe flu. The symptoms include fever, swollen glands, sore throat, rash, muscle and joint aches and pains, fatigue, and headache. The early period of infection is known as the “acute retroviral syndrome” (Stages, 2013). Once the virus is out of the acute stage it enters into the latency stage where it continues to replicate but no symptoms are shown. As the infection progresses and the immune system beco...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an enveloped retrovirus. It affects the immune system and the body loses its ability to fight diseases. It is mainly transferred by sexual contact. However, it can also be transmitted by contact with body fluid like blood, breast milk and so on (CDC, 2016). A patient is said to have AIDS when he/her suffer from many opportunistic infections (CDC, 2016).
While the chapter only covered one disease it is how this one disease has affected so many people from patients to health care employees. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome better known as AIDS first appeared in 1981. There are more than 21 million people that have died from the infection of AIDS. A highly contagious blood borne virus caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a fatal disease that destroys the body’s immune system. With the body having a defenseless immune system bacteria and viruses are free to affect the body. I chose to cover the topic of HIV and the effects is has on the health care environment.
syndrome. The symphony of the symphony. As its name implies, AIDS is a virus that is acquired and. attacks the immune system making it useless in the event of other viral or bacterial attacks on the human body. After the HIV virus is... ...
There are many inequities in this global world; should there be such gross inequities in the health of people around the world? We hear words like health gap, health care inequality and sustainability. What can be done to eliminate the health gap, health care inequities and maintain sustainability? The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations, private and public are working towards eliminating these disparities. Healthy People 2020 are one such goal that has achieved considerable progress in attaining sustainability in the pursuit of global health goals (Gostin et al., 2013). The health gap can be minimized through health strategies. Among them are essentials for all in this global world; clean air, water, healthy food and adequate housing with hygienic living conditions. Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention and care services should be available to all who seek health care services.
In 1981, a new fatal, infectious disease was diagnosed--AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome). It began in major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. People, mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users, were dying from very rare lung infections or from a cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. They have not seen people getting these diseases in numerous years. Soon, it also affected hemophiliacs, blood recipients, prostitutes and their customers, and babies born from AIDS-infected women. AIDS was soon recognized as a worldwide health emergency, and as a fatal disease with no known cure, that quickly became an epidemic. When high-profile victims began to contract the virus, such as basketball star Magic Johnson, the feeling spread quickly that anyone, not just particular groups of people, could be at risk. AIDS impairs the human body’s immune system and leaves the victim susceptible to various infections. With new research, scientists think that the disease was first contracted through a certain type of green monkey in Africa, then somehow mutated into a virus that a human could get. AIDS is a complicated illness that may involve several phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person. This virus is called HIV, or Human Immuno-deficiency Virus. In order for HIV to become full-blown AIDS, your T-cell count (number of a special type of white-blood cells that fight off diseases) has to drop below 200, or you have to get one of the symptoms of an AIDS-induced infection.
Since the first cases of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 1981, over 36 million people have died from the disease’s progression from HIV to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, scientists generally accept that the HIV virus started in a specific type of chimpanzee in Western Africa. HIV weakens the patient’s immune system by “destroying important cells that fight disease and infection.” After HIV is acquired, progresses, and grows it turns into a much more lethal stage, AIDS. Because their immune system is heavily damaged and virtually incompetent, AIDS patients is increasingly susceptible to other infections. If medical attention is not provided for an AIDS victim, they will almost certainly die (“What Is HIV/AIDS?”). In this recent and ongoing AIDS epidemic, about 75 million people have been infected with the virus, causing 36 million deaths; but there is hope because organizations like the Samaritan’s Purse are doing their best to combat the disease.