Essays on AIDS Epidemic

Background of the Study

The problem of HIV and AIDS has become a global one in the short time since the identification of the virus. Although there is no vaccine to protect against the virus, knowledge and education are two powerful shields against infection—and it has become clear in recent years that impoverished women in the developing world are particularly heavily impacted by HIV transmission and development of AIDS (UNAIDS, 2016). The goal of finding a way to slow or completely halt the spread of HIV and the development of AIDS has been an epidemiological conundrum for many years. Promoting health and ...

AIDS epidemic has been a public health concern over the last 50 years. The Aids cases have been rising since 1982 when it was termed as an epidemic due to increased number of cases. Initially, AIDS was thought to be rare cancer that presented among the homosexuals in 1981 (Altman, 1981). People found with the disease presented low immunity with high susceptibility to other infections mainly pneumonia. Also, the AIDS was common in gay men who practiced sexual intercourse with multiple partners. The disease also spread among the drug users especially those using intravenous drugs. After that, the cases ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016), about 1.2 million Americans are victims of AIDs epidemic with bisexual men and gay recording the highest preference. Moreover, racial and ethnic minorities suffer the greatest from the epidemic with African Americans and Latinos recording the highest number of infection in 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that one in every eight people living with AIDs are not aware of their status. The preference of HIV/AIDs in the United States changes each year since its discovery in 1981. A report on the new number of ...

In the present world, information technology continues to play an important role in health-care decisions, training, and public health informatics and especially among health practitioners who work directly to serve members of the public. The health and the well-being of Canadian citizens is particularly vital and is best dealt with by understanding the determinants of the disease, how it spreads from one Canadian to another and from community to community. As Flicker et al. (2004) observes, a man’s ill health and health status of the society is affected by environmental factors and lifestyle. This assignment is an examination ...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has remained to be an unfinished agenda in the world today as halfway through the intended period when they were to be achieved not so much has been gained. In Thailand, the people are still battling HIV and Aids, and it remains to be a pandemic that is yet to be contained. Studies indicate that of the total population of 60 million people in Thailand, around 440, 000 were living with HIV and Aids by the year 2013 (Fordham, 2015). Further, about 18,000 people had succumbed to the disease in that year ...

1.0 Introduction Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is an incurable human disease condition that is characterized by the developed inability of the human body to fight against infections and attacking diseases. It results from the destruction the cells (lymphocytes) of the body that confer protection against diseases. This destruction occurs when a virus known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) enters and invades a person’s immune system. HIV/ AIDS is one of the greatest killers that the world has ever known. In Africa, the disease condition is a major pandemic resulting in more deaths in a year (between 1999 and 2000) than ...