Don T Ask, Do Tell
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Question: Given what you know about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, do you think today’s attitude concerning sexual relationships should be Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell or Do Ask, Do Tell, but in either case always practice safer sex, meaning the male must wear a condom? Select either statement and present pros and cons, especially with respect to personal responsibility and how either statement impacts HIV prevention and transmission. Taking into consideration what I know about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and other sexually transmitted diseases, I will definitely agree with those that consider that today’s attitude concerning sexual relationships should be Do Ask, Do Tell, but in either case always practice safer sex, meaning …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that hiv is part of the retroviruses family. it is attached to the host cell by binding to cd4 and co-receptors.
- Explains that infection can progressively damage the immune system and cause diseases such as tuberculosis, tumors, and other opportunistic infections.
- Opines that the spread of hiv is not often related with our responsibility as a society, but if we had acted on time as individuals more aware of our role in the community, less people would have progressed to aids.
- Opines that social judgment can be dangerous because it can instigate the person affected to commit suicide. if a carrier avoids saying the true because he or she has not been asked, it is worse than committing murder.
- Concludes that the patient decision of do tell, even if we don’t ask, saves her life.
- Opines that today's attitude concerning sexual relationships should be do ask, do tell, but always practice safer sex, meaning the male must wear a condom.
It contains in the nucleus two single RNA chains. This virus begins by flouting the immune system protective barriers and continues then to destroy it to the point that the organism interfered becomes exceedingly vulnerable to infections that will otherwise not affect him or her. It is attach to the host cell by binding to a receptor called CD4 and also to a co-receptor that may be CCR5 or CXCR4.The two types of HIV reservoirs are the cellular and the anatomical. The combination of these reservoirs with latent infection causes persistent viremia, regardless of treatment with antiretroviral drugs. The way that the immune system reacts to these types of contamination comprises the assembly of virus-specific antibodies and cytotoxic T cells with the purpose of exterminating the cells that the virus has infected. Since HIV replication is error-prone, it has an elevated variability level that can be produce by mutation and / or by recombination. There are tow types of HIV: HIV-1 (most common) and HIV-2 (Usually in some areas of Africa). The first one is distributed into three units. Unit M is the most common worldwide; this is additionally divided into ten to twenty
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