I’ve heard about AID and HIV since I was in elementary school. It is not some new disease that has surface recently but has been around for a long time. AIDS is a disease that is caused by HIV and is currently a pandemic because it affects people worldwide. AIDS/HIV is currently not curable but is very preventable. With safe sex and proper education, people can avoid being affected with AIDS.
In Monday’s video I remember a clip about people in Africa and how much suffering they have to endure due to being affect with AIDS. People who affect with AIDS are looked down upon and treated like a disease infecting host. People fear that they will catch the disease if they associate with infected people so people to hide the fact that they are infected. I remember that one girl who was infected who lost her parents to AIDS was being toss from family to other family because she had AIDS.
In Wednesday video, it talked about how AIDS was first started in homosexual men. When I was a kid I remember hearing something about AIDS came from Monkeys. How it got into humans, were that humans were catching and eating monkeys. When preparing the monkey, a person would accidentally cut themselves and the monkey’s blood would land the on wound and then enter the person’s body. I don’t know if it’s true or not but that’s what I heard when I was a kid.
What surprise me the most is that it seems like getting any STI will increase your chance of getting AIDS/HIV. I honestly didn’t think that AIDS was so linked to all these sexual transmitted infections. As a global topic, I would like to learn about how close they are to finding a cure to AIDS and what people are doing to prevent new cases of AIDS. If not a cure, are there ways to slow down the effects cause by AIDS on people. With AIDS being a pandemic, it will only be matter of time before it affects you unless something drastic is done about AIDS.
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Since you were wondering, there actually are treatments for slowing down the development of AIDS from HIV. I only knew that there were treatments available, but I never really knew what they were exactly, so I looked it up... Treatment consists of HIV antiretroviral drugs taken every day for the rest of a person's life. These drugs help keep the replication and amount of HIV within the body at a low, so that there is less of a chance that the immune system will be weakened. These antiretroviral drugs are usually taken in different combinations at the same time, in order to prevent the virus from developing resistance.
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ReplyDeleteYa it's kind of sad about the situation going on in Africa. It's really sad to see people being basically disowned by their friends and family because they have AIDs. Some people think that the disease can be spread by contact because they are not educated about the topic. Magic Johnson has HIV and he can still live normally to the public eye due to the help of drugs. I also did not know before this class that having some STD's would increase you chances of getting HIV/AIDs that is kind of scary to think about.
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