Term Papers on Aids As A Worldwide Problem

Term Paper Title	Aids As A Worldwide Problem
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Aids As a Worldwide Problem

     Aids, Abbreviated for Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease that was discovered very recently. It is caused by HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus. It attacks cells in the immune system and produces function defects. These defects leave the body open to invasion by several  different infections. In some cases they can lead to the development of unusual cancers. This virus is also able to reach brain cells and damage the brain. "By the year 2000 there will be at least 40 million people worldwide infected with HIV."
     Late in the 1970's, a lot of people were being infected with certain rare cancers. AIDS was first observed to be affecting homosexual and bisexual men. A while after this observation not only these people were being infected with the disease, yet intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs, and recipients of blood transfusions as well could contract the disease. In addition sexual partners of a person who already had AIDS could also be infected with AIDS. Studies that were done on patients with the disease showed that there was a depletion of white blood cells which coordinated the body's's immune defense against invading organisms. In 1983 a virus that affected the same cell was discovered by a man named Robert Gallo. This virus is called HIV. Evidence shows that HIV is the causative agent for AIDS. Little information is known about the history of HIV, however this was the first time in history that the Virus had spread worldwide. Similar viruses have been discovered in animal popu!
lations, such as African Monkeys, however these do not appear in humans.
     HIV is transmitted through only 3 primary routes. Sexual intercourse with an individual who is infected with the disease already, exposure to infected blood or blood products, From a bother who had the disease before she gave birth to her child. The percentage of cases that have been transmitted through one of these three ways in the United States is 97%. 53% were homosexual. 7 percent are heterosexuals. The most significan...

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