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Living With Hiv United States And Canada
661 wordsAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome which stands for AIDS, Aids is a human viral disease that ravages the immune system, undermining the bodys ability to defend itself from infection and disease. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections. Such infections are harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune systems have been greatly weakened, they can prove fatal. While there is no cure for AIDS, new drugs have prol...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
2,016 wordsHIV and AIDS are one of the leading causes of death among 24 to 45 year olds and yet so many Americans seem to know nothing about it. So many people in the world believe HIV and AIDS are the same thing, but they are sadly mistaken. HIV is a virus. The letters stand for Human Immunodefiency Virus. HIV is a virus that attacks your immune system. What it attacks are important immune-system cells called T-cells. HIV is a retrovirus, which means it is slow moving. By attacking and killing the immune ...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,825 wordsJust as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower national HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. Globally, we have learned that if a country acts early enough, a national HIV crisis can be averted. It has also been noted that a country with a very high HIV prevalence rate will often see this rate eventually stabilise, and even decline. This indicates, among other things, th...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,769 words... st most young men had sex with women of their own age or younger, over 28 % of young girls said they has sex with older men. As a result, HIV rates are five times higher in girls than boys aged 15 - 19 in Trinidad and Tobago, and at one surveillance centre for pregnant women in Jamaica, girls in their late teens had almost twice the prevalence rate of older women. AIDS is now high on the agendas of many governments in this region, as they are beginning to notice the significant impact of the...
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Living With Hiv Infected With Hiv
1,292 words1. 1 Global situation of HIV/AIDS Since the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported in 1981, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has grown to pandemic proportions, resulting in an estimated 65 million infections and 25 million deaths (UNAIDS, CDC, 2006). During 2005 alone, an estimated 2. 8 million persons died from AIDS, 4. 1 million were newly infected with HIV, and 38. 6 million were living with HIV (UNAIDS, 2006). HIV continues to disproportionate...
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