The New Face of Hiv/Aids
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The New Face of HIV/AIDS |
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Living With HIV/Aids in Your Golden Years |
2/2/2009
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HISTORY of HIV/AIDs in AMERICA…
During the beginning of the 1980s an assortment of reports began to surface in New York area and parts of California, of a small amount of men who had been diagnosed with unusual variety of cancer or pneumonia. The cancer that was suspected was called Kaposi’s sarcoma, which normally only affected men of the Mediterranean or Jewish and young African men. The pneumonia, Pneumocystis Pneumonia Carinii is commonly only found in those with critically compromised immune systems. Nevertheless, the men were youthful and had formerly been in moderately excellent health. The only other characteristic that associated them together was that they were all homosexual men. After these discoveries, they gay community named it “The Gay cancer”. The first authorized document of the condition was published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 5th June 1981 (Center for Disease Control, 2005). During July 1982, similar immunodeficiencies were established in hemophiliacs. Hemophilia is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that complicate the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation. Also in December of the same year the disease was found in persons who received a blood transfusion and intra-venous drug users who shared needles. Additionally, by January 1983, it was clear that the female sex partners of these patients also got this disease. In view of this, it was obvious that a contagious agent was involved; this agent was either passed during sexual intercourse or by receiving blood (or blood products) from another person. At the same time as these events were unfolding in western countries, doctors in Africa were observing a similar terminal wasting disease that they called “The slim disease”. Not only was this disease contagious through blood and blood products and sexual intercourse, Scientist discovered...
The New Face of HIV/AIDS |
|
Living With HIV/Aids in Your Golden Years |
2/2/2009
|
HISTORY of HIV/AIDs in AMERICA…
During the beginning of the 1980s an assortment of reports began to surface in New York area and parts of California, of a small amount of men who had been diagnosed with unusual variety of cancer or pneumonia. The cancer that was suspected was called Kaposi’s sarcoma, which normally only affected men of the Mediterranean or Jewish and young African men. The pneumonia, Pneumocystis Pneumonia Carinii is commonly only found in those with critically compromised immune systems. Nevertheless, the men were youthful and had formerly been in moderately excellent health. The only other characteristic that associated them together was that they were all homosexual men. After these discoveries, they gay community named it “The Gay cancer”. The first authorized document of the condition was published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 5th June 1981 (Center for Disease Control, 2005). During July 1982, similar immunodeficiencies were established in hemophiliacs. Hemophilia is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that complicate the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation. Also in December of the same year the disease was found in persons who received a blood transfusion and intra-venous drug users who shared needles. Additionally, by January 1983, it was clear that the female sex partners of these patients also got this disease. In view of this, it was obvious that a contagious agent was involved; this agent was either passed during sexual intercourse or by receiving blood (or blood products) from another person. At the same time as these events were unfolding in western countries, doctors in Africa were observing a similar terminal wasting disease that they called “The slim disease”. Not only was this disease contagious through blood and blood products and sexual intercourse, Scientist discovered...