...“The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine” Sha’Quita Septs August 25, 2012 “Abstract” Over the past two decades doctors and research scientists have been trying to find a cure for the incurable virus of AIDS. Millions of people worldwide including infants have contracted this disease from birth. AIDS was first identified in the early 1980’s in America and most of its victims were drug users and gay African American men. Over sixteen thousand African American men and women have been diagnosed with AIDS which is over 50% of the world of the African American population. By 1990, over 30 million people were diagnosed with this disease. The need for an AIDS vaccine is very imperative because the death toll for people with AIDS is drastically increasing every year at a towering rate. Ever since AIDS was discovered, there have been several attempts to find a cure for this disease. Unfortunately, after twenty years of research; doctors and scientists are still no closer to finding a cure than when AIDS was first identified. “The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine” Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a medical condition that one must have tested positive on a HIV test and have another disease that is known as an "AIDS defining disease." These diseases include: yeast infections (candida), cervical cancer, Kaposis Sarcoma, tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, and pneumonia. AIDS was first identified in the United States during the early 1980’s. In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were detected...
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...there is medication to hold Aids in remission, millions around the world are not able to access the drug and, consequently, thousands continue to die from the disease.” What is AIDS? AIDS is a spectrum condition caused by an infection. Acquired immune deficiency is the last stage of human immunodeficiency virus, Which is transmitted through bodily fluids. Better known as AIDS/ HIV disease “Although there is medications to hold AIDS into remission, millions around the world are not able to access the drug and, consequently thousands continue to die from this deadly disease. AIDS is a deadly disease. AIDS breaks down your immune system due to not being treated for the disease. During this system break down the virus fights your body. Cell to cell transmission is a thousand times more efficient. Most patients who die from Aids succumb to one or more opportunistic infections. AIDS weaken your immune system due to not being treated for this disease. Your body loses the ability to fight many infections. This is why aids is a deadly disease. AIDS doesn't yet have a cure (Liz Szabo, 2012). There are no procedures or medications that have been proven scientifically to reliably eliminates the virus from a person’s body or reverse the damage that it has done to the immune system. At the first stage which is HIV if medicated you could continue to be in submission. There were many different studies to try to find a cure, but they haven't been very...
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...AIDS Introduction AIDS is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States. Millions of Americans have been affected by the virus from the ages of 25 and 45. AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among persons between ages 25 and 44 in the United States, down from number one in 1995. To some people, AIDS is just another epidemic like the common cold and it will go away in time. The AIDS epidemic doesn’t affect everyone in society the same. AIDS is a global epidemic and has threatened the human health and development for many years. There are many ways to prevent the spread of AIDS such as abstinence, educating our youths and adults on AIDS prevention, and political support to find a cure. There are different views on the AIDS problem. One view is the Politicians who believe that people are responsible for their own sexuality; therefore, it’s their responsibility to educate themselves. Second are Christians who believe that religion acts as a deterrent to sexual activity which decreased pre-marital sex. Third are the group of Planned Parenthood and safe sex which believes that if they educate people on the use of contraceptives, it will help diminish pregnancy and the spread of AIDS. HIV and Aids in the United States by age and gender More than half a million people diagnosed with AIDS have died in the USA. Around two-thirds of these people did not live to the age of 45. In 2007, the age group 30-49 years accounted for an estimated 54% of HIV diagnoses, 63% of AIDS...
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...battlefield of the Republican National Convention, Houston, TX, 1992. Mary Fisher, a woman avid for allies, battling against AIDS. In Mary Fisher’s “A Whisper of AIDS,” Mary, a mother, who is HIV positive, speaks out about how awareness is the key to finding a cure. Her speech will be analysed using Aristotle’s approach to rhetoric. By applying logos, pathos, and ethos, Mary’s speech can be best understood. What is her logic? What passion does she want you to feel? And what makes her credible? Those questions will be answered in this speech today. Mary Fisher’s logic is very clear– without awareness we cannot move forward in fighting the battle against AIDS. We should fight with our words and not our silence. If AIDS is viewed as a homosexual disease then we have no hope in finding a cure. Mary’s logic in her speech calls us “to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat of Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.” This powerful logic helps redefine who the real AIDS’ victims/survivors are. In the beginning of her speech, she uses statistics on how millions of people are infected and how, “[t]wo hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying.” Logically, one cannot ignore there is a present problem that needs to be addressed. AIDS is not a disease trapped in the impoverished places of Africa or between the sheets of a Shanghai prostitute’s bed....
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...Running Head: AIDS AIDS Michael W. McAlister Baker College Center for Graduate Studies Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 History 6 Origin 9 The Hunter Theory 9 The Ingestion Theory 9 Polio Vaccination Theory 10 The Conspiracy Theory 10 Spread 11 Research 12 Infection 13 Prevention 13 Cure 14 Conclusion 15 References 16 Abstract This library research paper will provide the reader with a history of AIDS, where and how it originated as well as the public’s common belief of how AIDS was transmitted to humans, subsequently creating an unstoppable pandemic. This article provides scientific substantiation on the spread infection and prevention of the disease as it known today. Introduction A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large regions such as a continent or spreads worldwide (Pandemic, 2010). Since the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, the United States has battled many pandemics and outbreaks of various diseases that have had devastating effects on the public health during the periods they existed by causing thousands of deaths. Pandemics such as the polio pandemic which broke out in 1916 was responsible for killing 6,000 people, the great influenza of 1918 also known as the Spanish Flu was responsible for killing 50 to 100 million people in just six months (The Worst Outbreaks of Disease, n.d.). The number of people killed by this...
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...The Cure: How Close Are We from Stopping the Pandemic? Human Biology 1000 September 24, 2009 Audience: Future scientist, researches, and the general public Greetings to you all, my name is ------------------------- and I am giving a briefing today on one of human kinds biggest enemies. The object of this briefing is to inform all of you about the hope that has recently been discovered to possibly cure HIV/AIDS. One of the biggest germs of our time which is responsible for over 2 million lives lost is HIV/AIDS also known as Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. There is an estimated 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS. This monster of a virus is crossing all ethnic lines as well as social classes and all age groups. It sees no color of the skin, your age or where you come from. What is HIV or by its scientific name the human immune deficiency syndrome or immunodeficiency virus: it is a modern day virus that according to some research dates back to the early 1950’s. As it grows today it has been around since the 1970’s in its current form. HIV has to forms, HIV-1B and HIV-1c. HIV-1B is mainly in the United States and HIV-1C is what we find in Africa. You can have HIV for years and not have any symptoms at all, so what are the phases of HIV? (2) 1) The primary HIV infection phase (aka as acute sero-conversion illness) 2) The asymptomatic phase 3) The minor symptomatic phase 4) The major symptomatic phase 5) AIDS ...
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...Diseases There are many different types of infectious diseases, some are treatable and some unfortunately still untreatable. There is no cure for these diseases even though they have been researched for years, these untreatable diseases include but are not limited to cancer, and one of the most deadly diseases Aids and HIV. Having HIV does not mean that the person also has the Aids virus; it means that they have the virus that causes Aids. However if a person has Aids than they also have HIV sense HIV is the virus that causes Aids to set in. There have been over 980,000 cases of Aids reported in the United States since 1981 (Center for Disease control, 2009). HIV and AIDs are not the same disease; HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and can be caught on contact. HIV can turn into the AIDS virus though it takes time which can vary in length from a couple of months to years. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome this means that once the HIV virus starts attacking the immune system and breaks down the necessary cells that keep the body healthy, than AIDS sets in. If however HIV is detected early and medical treatment is established it is possible for the patient to survive with the HIV virus for years. There are medications that can be taken to boost the immune system and help fight back the virus to prevent the onset of AIDS. This virus is spread through the physical transmission of bodily fluids. Transmission of this virus can range in form. The transmission...
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...SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES HCS/245 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH AND DISEASE The article I have chosen to write about is sexually transmitted diseases. There are many types of sexually transmitted diseases in the world of today a couple of good examples that I will be writing about are bacterial vaginitis, chlamydia/gonorrhea, genital herpes, syphilis and the one that all this diseases can lead up to aids or Hiv. These sexually transmitted diseases are also known as Stds. Stds are infections that are transferred from one person to another through sexual contact. Stds can be transmitted during vaginal anal or oral sex. They can also be transmitted from an infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or childbirth. In the reading of the article I have discovered that there are more than thirty different sexually transmissible bacteria, viruses and parasites. If patients are diagnosed with a certain type of STD the physician is required to report the certain STD to the state health departments. Many states that discover or find an STD report the newly diagnosed cases so that the public can be aware of the problem. I dint know this but STD are a major public health challenging the United States. The major health center like the (CDC) center for disease control and prevention estimates that there are approximately nineteen million STD infections each year. This infections alone can cost the health care about sixteen point four billion dollars per year that just a lot, with all...
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...We watched two videos for this ASL class. One is a documentary called Audism Unveiled. And other documentary is Through Deaf Eyes. It was new to hear how Audism is discovered and how people reacted with the deafness. It was so surprising to hear that people actually did something to cure the disease with various ways. I did not expect that sign language is one thing that people did not allow deaf people to use. I felt really bad to know that deaf were trained to speak out loud and not allowed to use sign language. Even though I am not a deaf person, I already know how lip reading is hard to do in a conversation because I can’t communicate with my friends by lip reading which a lot of girls use to talk things secretly. It was totally heartbreaking to see many stories about parents trying to ‘cure’ their deaf children with science, and religion. Also devastating were the descriptions of a couple of 18th century ‘cures’ for deafness, including one which involved pumping the Eustachian tube full of chemicals. At least the chemicals make sense about curing the deafness, but flying on the jet to cure deafness is much more terrifying way to do to their children. I was interested to learn that up until recently, almost all education for deaf students was entirely focused on speech. So many stories of people being punished for using sign or not pronouncing words to the teacher’s satisfaction. Many people also told their stories of being forced to learn Signed English or Manually...
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...Aids Currently, there are an estimated 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS worldwide. AIDS stands for: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome and is a currently recognized disease. AIDS is transmitted through blood, sexual intercourse, blood transfusions, needle drug users, and from mothers to babies during birth. The disease is brought about by the HIV-1 virus. HIV-1 stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and can remain dormant for years after which it will begin to attack the bodys T-cells and white cells which helps fight off the infection. The disease attacks selected cells in the immune system and causes them to function defectively. These deficiencies may not be apparent for years. They lead to the suppression of the immune system's ability to combat harmful organisms. This leaves the body open to invasion by various infections, which are called opportunistic diseases, and to the development of unusual cancers. The virus also affects certain brain cells. As HIV terrorizes the immune system, the person looses more and more t cells until they reach a point where they have below 200 t cells per cubic millimeter of blood. This means that the immune system is so devastated that it will now be susceptible to infections and viruses that the body cannot fight off. Thus, people do not die from AIDS itself, but rather from an illness or infection that takes opportunity of the weakened immune system, leaving the body with no defense. People are not aware of all the risks and...
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...Aids Within the African American Community “I tested HIV positive in 2002. I was 16. The reason why I went for an HIV test was because my ex-boyfriend at that time had gotten sick in the past few months, and then he died. No one would tell me why he died. No one would tell me what he had. I felt it was my responsibility to actually find out for myself if he did have HIV or AIDS. The only thing to do, was for me to go for an HIV test. When I was told that I was HIV positive, I could not believe them. I kept on asking them, "Why do I have HIV? Why do I still look healthy? Why am I not thin? Why am I not sick? Why am I not feeling sick? I feel normal and I look normal. Why do I have HIV?”-Thembi Ngubane of South Africa AIDS have been spreading throughout our world continuously as the years pass. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease in the immune system that is transmitted through blood products by needles or sexual contact; a result of HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus). AIDS affect not only the health, but also the happiness and life of a human. A cure has not been found for this disease, but medication to slow down the succession of AIDS. Few do not suffer from AIDS, but is a worldwide plague that will not go away. AIDS have killed millions of people throughout the world. This epidemic has been harming the lives of many people, particularly within the black community. African Americans face the most severe burden of AIDS in Sub-Saharan...
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...through sharing needles with regards to drug use. The HIV virus works by attacking cells called CD4+ cells. These cells make up a large part of one’s immune system. When a certain number of CD4+ cells are destroyed, the human body is no longer able to fight off infections, regardless of how common. When the CD4+ cell amount becomes so little in quantity, the patient’s diagnosis usually changes from HIV to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The amount of time it can take for those infected to progress to AIDS can take up to 12 years (aids.gov, 2014). With ObamaCare, the primary goals regarding HIV is aimed at: 1) reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV, 2) increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV, and 3) reducing HIV-related health disparities (aids.gov, 2014). By providing preventative care such as condoms, education on monogamy, free clinics for STD (sexually transmitted diseases) screening, the population will be at a lesser risk of contracting HIV. In 1995, 44 percent of the general public indicated that HIV/AIDS was the most urgent health problem facing the Nation, compared to only 6 percent in March 2009 (aids.gov, 2014). This statistic shows that people in this era are increasing in ignorance regarding this pandemic. To this day, nearly 1.1 million people currently are affected with this virus and it continues to rise every year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)....
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...Currently, an ethical health care dilemma has been breaching media pertaining to the use of HIV and AIDS for cancer. Scientist and researchers in the health care world have successfully manipulated a modified version of HIV. The modified version is injected into the blood-stream to attack cancer cell (The Inquisitr, December 10. 2012). Cures for cancer tend to cause many controversial debates on the ethical standings of what is morally correct (The Inquisitr, December 10. 2012). The modified HIV, will not infect the patient with typical HIV symptoms, however, the modified HIV will act according to the traits in order to become the strongest cell in the human body (The Inquisitr, December 10. 2012). At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, doctors manipulated a seven year old female’s immune system to help direct the cancerous cells. According to The Inquisitr (December 10. 2012), “They took a batch of her own T cells-a type of white blood cell-and genetically engineered them to kill the B cells-another type of white blood cell-responsible for her disease” (par 5 ). Radiation is used for the treatment of cancer. The radiation terminates cells of the disease that is progressing. However, cancerous cells manage to rehabilitate and become immune to radiation (Kriboshe, June 3, 2012). The particular guideline insists that VIF protein that is found with HIV and AIDS can prevent cancerous cells from,...
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...Infectious Disease HIV/AIDS Julie Maple HCA/240 October 7, 2012 Elizabeth Day Infectious Disease HIV/AIDS The Human Immunodeficiency Virus was discovered in 1985. HIV is a virus that is transmitted from one person to another by many different ways. For example, HIV can be transmitted by bodily fluids. It could be fluids like blood or semen that transmits the virus, because they came from the infected person into the other person. HIV/AIDS is commonly spread by sexual intercourse. I have also seen people get HIV/AIDS by sharing needles when using them for street drugs. HIV/AIDS reproduces, and as it reproduces, it tears down the body’s immune system, thus leaving the body susceptible to other illnesses and infections. The only environmental factors that could make a person vulnerable to HIV/AIDS would be the lack of recreational activities in the environment. There are also places in our neighborhoods that allow people to use drugs and engage in sexual activity. In my hometown there was this place at the community park called the rock. It was this huge rock that all the “cool” kids went to so they wouldn’t get caught doing their drugs or having sex. With HIV/AIDS there are two inflammatory responses. According to Brown (1995), “the production by B cells of antibodies which circulate all around the body in the bloodstream, and eventually bind to the agent. There are mechanics available which are very good at destroying anything which has antibody bound to...
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...the holes as well as sperm. A good condom would be one with a small latex tip to avoid breaking of the condom. Overall, latex condoms are good ways to prevent STD’s and pregnancy, but they do break, so it’s not 100% guaranteed to prevent pregnancy or disease. There are many methods out there, but the most effective method is to have sexual intercourse with one partner. Who thought that sex would be easy? It’s not. Nowadays we have tons of diseases, which are fatal. Only some of them are curable, and some can be slowed down. But all of them can be prevented. The most common sexually transmitted diseases are: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Herpes(Simplex II), NGU(Nongonicoccal Urethritis), Vaginitis, Genital Warts, Pubic Lice/Scabies, AIDS, and Hepatitis. Chlamydia is a disease, which is transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse. If you had this disease, you would experience bleeding between menstrual periods, abdominal pain, and painful urination. There is another term for painful urination. It is called “urinary tract infection”. This group includes Cystitis’s or Urethritis caused by Gonorrhea or...
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