Essays Tagged: "human immunodeficiency virus"
AIDS/HIV
IV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deterioratesthe immune system. There are two groups of HIV (humanimmunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 that occurs throughout the world and HIV-2that mainly occurs in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Aids
causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of AIDS -- called also AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus. A retrovirus is any of a group of RNA-containing viruses (as HIV) that ... use of AIDS is a virus that scientists isolated in 1983. The virus was at first named HTLV-III/LAV (human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III/lymphadenopathy- associated virus) by an international scie ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
HIV / AIDS Adequacy Program
in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By killing or impairing cells of the immune system, HIV progress ... ated needles or other medical instruments is rare.Statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show that out of the 708,755 people who have AIDS at the end of 1999, Florida was the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
AIDS
ency syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently recognized disease entity. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks selected cells in the immune system (see IMMUNITY) ... ealth and Luc Montagnier at France's Pasteur Institute. The virus was at first given various names: human lymphotropic virus (HTLV) III, lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), and AIDS-associated ret ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
AIDS
or AIDS, is adisease entity that has been recognized since 1981. It is caused byinfection with the human immunodeficiency virus, which attacksselected cells in the immune system and produces defects ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
AZT
mptoms. In 1983, researchers finally identified thevirus that caused AIDS. They named the virus the human immunodeficiency virus, orHIV. AIDS causes the immune system of the infected patient to become ... etween 106 C and 112 C. AZT is soluble in water,which is important so that it may dissolve into the human blood and be distributed tothe cells. AZT is usually taken in a pill format, but it is absorbe ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Title: What's the big deal about Aids? This is a critcal essay on AIDS listing treaments, prevention, and facts about AIDS. 5pages, MLA format with Works Cited
om HIV, and the proper methods used, will help reduce the chance of a person from getting AIDS.HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is a precursor to AIDS. There are three main ways of contracting HIV: ... any other insects. The reason it is unlikely to contract HIV from insects is because outside of the human body the virus is very week. Becoming infected with HIV from donating blood is just a myth; wh ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The effects of AIDS and HIV in the world
With reference to one animal or human disease, explain why its economic consequences vary spatially.AbstractThe AIDS epidemic claime ... S epidemic claimed more than 3 million lives in 2002,and an estimated 5 million people acquired the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2002 - bringing to 42 million the number of people globally li ... the epidemic has spread unchecked, it is robbing countries of the resources and capacities on which human security and development depend. In some regions, HIV/AIDS, in combination with other crises, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Aids.
deficiency syndrome, or aids, is a recently recognized disease. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Aids is a complicated illness that may involve several phases. I ... y infecting individuals but, also our society. Until a cure is recovered it will continue to plague human society. No person will ever be truly safe.Aids stands for acquired immunodeficiency or someti ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The prospects of reducing the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan.
rently sub-Saharan Africa contains 29.4 million out of the 42 million individuals infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS should be view ... n and treatment of HIV because of moral, traditional and religious issues is, an obstruction of the human right to live.Therefore education programs need to be in place from early childhood and throug ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Viral Jujitsu: A new gene therapy has a way of turning the AIDS virus against itself.
The war against AIDS is one of attrition. Antiretroviral drugs can slow the proliferation of the human immunodeficiency virus, delaying the day when the patient experiences full-blown AIDS. But the ... he explains. "And the more it mutates, the weaker it gets." Dropulic has been testing his vector on human tissue cultures since 1995. Early tests showed that the vector inhibited HIV replication by 99 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Anaylsis of HIV & AIDS in West Africa.
dianapolis after receiving a blood transfusion. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) have since spread rapidly to other countries all over the world, with ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
The AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Virus.
for the AIDS virus, but have successfully slowed down the process of the cause of AIDS called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a specific group of dise ... nd organs that defend the body against invaders causing disease). The AIDS virus first involves the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). People with the HIV virus gradually loses immune function along ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology
AIDS: A Global Threat.
A- acquiredH- humanI- immune I- immunodeficiencyD- deficiencyV- virusS- syndromeWhat is HIV/AIDS?AIDS is an acrony ... IDS?AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is a disease caused by HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus attacks the immune system, the body's line of defense again ... ican leaders have asked the UN for 5-10 billion dollars more in relief, but so far this request for humanitarian aid has been denied. United States president George W. Bush has assigned 2.5 billion do ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Criminalization of Knowlingly Transmitting AIDS
inalization of Knowingly Transmitting ItAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discoverd independently in France in 1983 and in t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
AIDS In the World: This essay is about AIDS. How AIDS effect, the prevention, and all about AIDS.
AIDS in the WorldAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is human viral disease that ravages the immune system, undermining the body's ability to defend itself ... e system, undermining the body's ability to defend itself from infection and disease. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infec ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
HIV/AIDS Research Paper
, sneezing, sharing household items, or swimming in the same pool as someone infected with HIV. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not spread easily. If HIV-infected blood or sexual fluid gets ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia
HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS:The principal obstacles for the implement ... on? Why cannot I?HIV-affected Georgian womanTwenty years have passed since the world first heard of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), which cause an incur ... y, another 15,000 acquire the virus (UN, 2001). There is no other disease so dangerous nowadays for human immune system as HIV. There is no other disease so frequently discussed and referred to by the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Stigma
Joe is thirty-two years old who has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS), he has been cut off from his family emotionally and they do ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
A I D S
out the AIDS? An estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million people in the United States are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (American Social Health Association). Unlike many diseases, HIV i ... individual to other.DEFINING AIDSAIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and HIV means Human immunodeficiency virus. A general misconception is that a person who has an HIV positive test ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology