One million people in the U.S. are living with HIV. 1 in 6 of those people are not aware that they are infected. About 8,000 hemophiliacs in the 1980s where infected with HIV and Hepatitis due to contaminated blood supplies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the government, the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), and the companies distributing the medicine used to control the clotting of a hemophiliac’s blood knew that the factor was contaminated and sold it anyway for the money they would gain due to the high prices that these products were sold at. This violated human rights and the government, CDC, and FDA did not act responsibly to stop this epidemic from happening.
Hemophilia is a genetic disease, mostly affecting males. There are two types, Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B. When a person has Hemophilia A, they do not produce enough Factor VIII (factor eight), which is a clotting factor that clots cuts in a quick amount of time. In Hemophilia B, the person does not produce enough Factor IX (factor nine). Hemophilia A is the most common form. Due to this, it takes longer for a person affected by this disease to clot cuts so they do not continue to bleed. Depending on the levels of clotting factor in a person’s blood, it can take much longer for bruises and cuts to heal and internal bleeding is much more prevalent, especially in the joints. Sometimes the bleeds would damage their joints so badly they could not walk. Some bleeds can occur in the head, gut, or throat and can require immediate medical treatment. Even regular growth in boys who had hemophilia can rupture blood vessels and cause bleeds. Every time they had a bleed, it weakened the joints a little more, and if they stressed...
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Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process, which is not normal. Some people with Hemophilia may just have a little bit of “clotting factor” or no clotting factor at all (National Institute of Health [NIH], 2013). Clotting factor is a protein in blood that controls bleeding and they are needed the blood to clot normally. In order to help the blood clot, clotting factors work with “platelets” (National Institute of Health [NIH], 2013). Platelets are small blood cell fragments that form in the bone marrow, a tissue in the bones that is similar to a sponge. The functions of platelets have a very important role in blood clotting; the role of a platelet is to stick together (by the help of clotting factors) to block cuts, break on the carriers of blood (veins or arteries) throughout the body, and stop the bleeding when “blood vessels” (National Institutes of Health [NIH], 2013) are injured. Blood vessels are tube like structures carrying blood through the tissues and organs, like a vein, artery, or capillary. People with hemophilia do not have enough “clotting factor VIII or IX” (World Federation of Hemophilia [WFH], 2013) in their blood, which results to prolonged bleeding or oozing, meaning that bleeding can last longer (though, not faster) than usual after surgeries, accidents, or having teeth pulled out at the dentist. Clotting factor VIII, which can also be called as “anti-hemophilic factor” (AHF, for short) (Patient.co.uk, 2011), is a blood clotting protein that is necessary for humans to have. Clotting Factor IX is a protein that i...
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Hemophilia is a rare genetic blood clotting disorder that primarily affects males. People living with hemophilia do not have enough of, or are missing, one of the blood clotting proteins naturally found in blood. Two of the most common forms of hemophilia are A and B. In persons with hemophilia A (also called classic hemophilia), clotting factor VIII is not present in sufficient amounts or is absent. In persons with hemophilia B (also called Christmas disease), clotting factor IX is not present in sufficient amounts or is absent. People with hemophilia do not bleed more profusely or bleed faster than normal; they bleed for a longer period of time.
A person with hemophilia faces great problems. Any little scrap or cut even burse can give the person a hard time. With this condition a person faces prolonging bleeding. Surgery or evening getting a tooth pulled isn’t a great idea. This condition causes the blood clotting process to slow down. If you have this disorder you’ll be sure to know. You have be playing a street game of football one minute fall and scrap you’re your knee the next. And be hospitalizing at the end of the day. Even serious complication can result in bleeding into the joint, muscle, brain or other internal organs (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012) . You may not know if you have hemophilia until abnormal bleeding occurs after a serious injury or surgery. This may be hard for someone to take in.
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Hemophilia is the oldest know, lifelong bleeding disorder(“Hemophilia”2004). It is named for two inherited diseases in which the blood does not clot normally. Several different plasma proteins must be present for blood to clot property. If one of the plasma proteins is missing, or present at low levels, blood clots very slowly(“Hemophilia” The Marshall Cavendish). The two most common types of hemophilia are: Hemophilia A or FactorVIII(8) deficiency and Hemophilia B of FactorIX(9) deficiency(“Hemophilia” 2002). People with Hemophilia A have low levels of one kind of blood clotting protein and people with Hemophilia B have low levels of another kind(“Hemophilia” The new book).
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Hemo, meaning “blood”, and philia, meaning “love”, make up the word hemophilia, but hemophilia isn’t the love of blood, so what is it? Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder which causes the affected person to bleed more than a person without hemophilia would. When a child with hemophilia falls off his bike and cuts his knee, the blood takes longer to clot at the sight of the cut than it would for a child without hemophilia. Hemophilia also causes joint damage because the built up blood of a bleed inside the body erodes joints. Out of the two types of hemophilia: hemophilia A, which is factor VIII deficiency, and hemophilia B, factor IX deficiency, hemophilia A is more common with 80 percent of cases being this type (Dowshen). Yet what causes this bleeding disorder? How does someone get it? How can it be treated? Since the discovery of the cause of hemophilia in the 20th century, many hemophilia patients have been helped because treatments for this disorder have been developed, inhibitors have been discovered, and treatments for inhibitors have been created.
Hemophilia, also spelled as Haemophilia is a rare inherited genetic bleeding disorder. People with this condition or hemophiliacs doesn’t bleed any faster than normal, slowing down their clotting. This is because their blood lacks sufficient clotting proteins, which helps stop bleeding process following a blood draw, injury, or surgery. There are two major types of this disorder __ Hemophilia A, also known as classic hemophilia or factor VIII deficiency and Hemophilia B, also known as Christmas disease or factor IX deficiency. Severe cases of hemophilia include internal bleeding in organs, joints, muscles and even brain which could lead to acute complications. Milder forms of hemophilia does not necessary spontaneous bleeding and the condition
The medical community had much trouble in the progress of researching the disease. In the beginning and for a period of time, the disease had no name. This was partly because no one really wanted to announce that a new disease had been discovered. After being dubbed “GRID”, an acronym singling out gays, it was changed when it was finally discovered that AIDS could be transmitted though blood transfusions and IV drug use. There was also an amazing display of medical misconduct as the head of one laboratory in the US engaged in a competition-like struggle with a lab in Paris in the research of the disease. When he finally agreed to collaborate with the French, he announced discoveries ahead of time and took all the credit for himself. This led to a long legal action that delayed much of the research of AIDS and caused many people to “die of red tape.”