Essays Tagged: "hiv positive"

HIV Babies

rials of zidovudine cut the risk for mother to child transmission of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds. Although, this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations that all pr ... , this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations that all pregnant women should receive HIV testing and counseling. But, these findings have been cause of protests by several activist grou ...

(4 pages) 80 0 4.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS

- -AIDS HIV and/or AIDS is a life threatening disease that is affecting society today. It is a serious epide ... t is a serious epidemic that is threatening millions of lives around the world. A person can become HIV infected thorough the sharing syringes or through vaginal or anal sex, one does not become infec ... e might think. It is infected through the blood. Testing positive for human immunodefiency virus or HIV, means that you carry the antibodies, you can be HIV infected and not have AIDS, AIDS occurs in ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?

"The HIV establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various specific criticisms of the HIV t ... aking them seriously. They have never provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that HIV really is the cause of AIDS.... After ten years of failure, it is time to take a second look."-C ... es A. Thomas, Jr., Kary B. Mullis, and Phillip E. Johnson(qtd. in Atwan)A homosexual male exits the HIV/AIDS testing center with a pale and sick look on his face. He has just been told that he is HIV ...

(8 pages) 129 0 1.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

HIV/AIDS - Description, causes, statistics etc.

HIV/AIDS is an epidemic that affects both men and women of all ages. It has an impact on many people ... ither by themselves being infected, knowing someone who is infected, or being a health care worker. HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. It also affects the blood cells (lymphocytes) ... affects the lungs, central nervous system and gastrointestinal system. People begin with having the HIV virus. An HIV infected person is likely to stay fit and well for a long time.In time, however th ...

(4 pages) 258 2 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS epidemic in China.

did not last long. The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985. By the end of September 1999, HIV-positive cases have been reported in every one of the thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions a ... rovinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. The total number has reached 15,088. Most HIV-infected persons live in the countryside. Among the reported cases, 477 have developed full-blow ...

(2 pages) 48 1 4.8 Aug/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Imagine that you have just been diagnosed as HIV positive.

a normal life depends on how the infected person reacts to the disease. First of all, those who are HIV positive may not have AIDS; therefore, if I had been diagnosed as HIV positive, I would establis ... rocedures. For example, many scientists believe that not enough is known about the basic biology of HIV, and they have recommended guiding the emphasis of AIDS research to basic research that could ul ...

(3 pages) 59 1 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Criminalization of Knowlingly Transmitting AIDS

mitting ItAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discoverd independently in France in 1983 and in the United States in 1984. In t ... 984. In the United States, it was initially identified in 1981. In 1986, a second virus, now called HIV-2, was also discovered in Africa. HIV-2 also causes AIDS.AIDS is transmitted in three ways: From ...

(5 pages) 37 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What is HIV

Are you the next victim of the HIV virus? What really is HIV and why is it so important for us to know about?HIV has a very complex ... ands of RNA, which are identical in every way. The RNA is what stores the information to infect the HIV virus. HIV also contains an enzyme called reverse transriptase. That's just the basic structure ... o contains an enzyme called reverse transriptase. That's just the basic structure of the virus.What HIV does is it breaks down a person's immune system. When the virus infects a cell the reverse trans ...

(2 pages) 71 3 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

HIV/AIDS Research Paper

In the United States, there are about 800,000 to 900,000 people who are HIV-positive. Over 300,000 people are living with AIDS. Each year, there are about 40,000 new infect ... has spread to men and women of all ages and sexualities. Homosexual men are at the highest risk for HIV/AIDS. Today, more than half of all new infections strike people under the age of 25. Girls are h ... ly, and 14 million children are now orphans because of the disease.Hence the rumors, you cannot get HIV/AIDS from mosquito bites, coughing, sneezing, sharing household items, or swimming in the same p ...

(3 pages) 199 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Sidewalk: The Street Vendors of 6th Avenue - A look at the Economic Sytems, Kinship, and Social Controls by which they live.

from mid-thirties to their late fifties. About a third are Vietnam veterans, and a few say they are HIV positive. The rest would rather not know. But there are the exceptional few, like Hakim, who was ...

(7 pages) 38 0 3.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

The Black plague.

ng to the Kaiser Family Foundation, "African Americans account for more than half of the 40,000 new HIV infections estimated to occur in the United States per year. Moreover, AIDS is the number one ki ... umber one killer among Blacks between the ages of 25 and 44." This frightens me because my Uncle is HIV positive. Nevertheless, I believe that the reason why political figures, such as President Bush ...

(6 pages) 93 0 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS & HIV the causes effects and types of possible treatments.

ht this deadly disease. The AIDS disease has a number of symptoms and conditions that come with it. HIV causes the disease AIDS. HIV means human immunodeficiency virus. A virus is a very small organis ... rus. A virus is a very small organism that gets into a person's body and makes a disease. The virus HIV also only affects humans. If someone has been infected with AIDS they are called HIV positive or ...

(6 pages) 110 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Marketing of Benetton

- a black horse mounting a white one - the naked buttocks of an AIDS carrier, tattooed with "HIV Positive"- a black baby and a white baby facing each other, sitting on their potties- ... a product and were instead showing human realities that they were aware of, such statements as the HIV ad did not appeal to the American market. This and future controversial ads similarly angered ma ...

(4 pages) 91 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Gay Adoption: Question Of The Century

s. Un-adoptable. Kids with Down Syndrome. Kids in wheelchairs. Kids born to drug addicts. Kids with HIV. Kids who might die. Kids who still need parents. It takes a special kind of person to parent ch ... children like this.Bert was one of those kids. But suddenly at ten yrs. old he is no longer testing HIV positive. It's a miracle. Bert can be adopted now. Bert's foster parents, who have been raising ...

(5 pages) 175 0 4.9 Jul/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

The Botswana government as a helping nation is truly and working hard upon to combat HIV/AIDSepidemic

The Botswana government as a helping nation is truly and working hard upon to combat HIV/AIDSepidemic. Botswana government is making some efforts trying to fight against this deadly dis ... of the efforts are the introduction of the following: Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV (P.M.T.C.T), Antiretroviral Therapy(A.R.V.T), Home based and orphan care, Tebelopele Voluntary C ... ment of Botswana has introduced routine testing in hospitals for every citizen to test for his/ her HIV status. This focucing mainly on pregnant women especially those who are HIV positive. This progr ...

(3 pages) 31 1 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Personal account about a family member affected by HIV/AIDS

AIDS KILLSIn October 1985, a close relative of mine was diagnosed HIV Positive at the age of thirty-four. He was beginning a relationship with a girlfriend and he tal ... f thirty-four. He was beginning a relationship with a girlfriend and he talked her into going for a HIV test. While he was at the medical clinic, he decided to take a test himself too, although the te ... ms that significantly affected him were exhaustion and generally feeling sick - classic symptoms of HIV. Soon he had cut his workdays from six down to four days a week. Within another two years he was ...

(2 pages) 23 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS

Difference Between HIV AIDSA person is said to be HIV positive if that person is infected with the virus HIV. The perso ... IV. The person may not be sick at all. A person is said to have AIDS if the person is infected with HIV and has certain signs and symptoms of the disease. In short, HIV is the virus, and AIDS is the d ... lood vessels which are directly in contact with semen and vaginal discharge during sexual contacts. HIV can be transmitted by both homosexual and heterosexual contact, such as vaginal intercourse, ora ...

(4 pages) 69 0 3.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

HIV/AIDS in Botswana.

An estimated 25 million people in Africa were living with AIDS in 2003 (AIDS and HIV Statistics for Africa). In Botswana alone, the AIDS prevalence rate is an immense 36.5% (HIV and ... in Botswana). In Botswana, AIDS has been an ongoing epidemic since the first case reported in 1985 (HIV and AIDS in Botswana). AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which weakens a ... . AIDS is transmitted through both homosexual and heterosexual intercourse, blood transfusions with HIV positive blood, sharing of infected needles, and HIV positive mothers passing the disease to the ...

(6 pages) 30 0 1.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Dance Criticism

inence when she refused to view and write about the dance piece "Still/Here," by the black, gay and HIV positive choreographer Bill Jones. According to her article "Discussing the Undiscussable," Croc ...

(3 pages) 62 0 4.5 Apr/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

HIV and Periodontal Disease

"Periodontal Considerations in the HIV-Positive Patient" by the Committee on Research, Science and Therapy of The American Academy of P ... an Academy of Periodontology shows a correlation between a worldwide public health problem known as HIV and periodontal disease. This article reviews clinical signs and symptoms, treatments, and the p ... ntal disease. This article reviews clinical signs and symptoms, treatments, and the pathogenesis of HIV-related periodontal findings. HIV predominant mode of transmission is thru heterosexual contact. ...

(10 pages) 84 2 4.6 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases