HIV+Questions+SLS


 * PART 1 pp. 344-345**

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
 * What does AIDS stand for?**

Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
 * What does HIV stand for?**

An opportunistic infection is one that has the opportunity to occur only because the immune system is severely weakend.
 * What is an opportunistic infection?**

The relationship between AIDS and HIV infections are when a person develops one or more of a number of opportunistic infections.
 * What is the relationship between HIV and opportunistic infections?**

HIV and AIDS originated in Africa and spread to America and Europe by way of the Caribbean. HIV has been found in a preserved 1959 blood sample taken from a man who lived in an African country now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 * When and where did HIV transmission in humans begin?**

The name AIDS was coined in 1982.
 * When was the name AIDS coined?**

Since HIV is not extremely infectious, it took longer for researchers to conclude that the two diseases had separate affects on the body.
 * Why did it take several decades for the number of AIDS cases to increase to a point that AIDS became recognizable as a specific disease?**

AIDS is now considered a pandemic because the disease is prevalent in the entire human population around the globe.
 * Why is AIDS now considered a pandemic?**

50%
 * What percentage of new AIDS cases are in young adults ages 15 to 24?**

This percentage is hard on a country because these ages are considered to be a nation's social, political and economical structure and stability.
 * Why is this particularly hard on a country?**

Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia have the highest HIV count, with over 20% of this continent being HIV positive. India now has the highest number of people living with HIV infection in the world, followed by South Africa.
 * Which continent has the highest percentage of people living with HIV? What is the adult percentage of people living with HIV in that continent? Which part of this continent have the highest prevalence rates?**

Mostly Africa and other poor, low income countries.
 * PART 2 p. 352**
 * Where do 95% of all HIV infected people live?**

The death rate is so high because they do not have the money or medical supplies to cease the infections from spreading throughout the population.
 * Why is the death rate so how in these countries?**

The fraction of people in these countries that are unaware that they have HIV is 9 out of 10 people. This number is so high because the people there do not have the medical assistance needed to determine whether or not they have the disease, and the number is scary because that is 90% of the population --which is a huge and devastating number.
 * What fraction of people in these countries were unaware of they had HIV? Why is that frightening? Why do you think that is the case?**

Those dying from HIV and AIDS are people among the ages of 20 to 50 which is a large age difference. Woman account for 47% of the people living with HIV.
 * In these countries, who is dying? The young or the old? Is there much difference between the number of men vs. women that die?**

The primary way that HIV is spread in most parts of the world is via child birth and sexually transmitted.
 * In most parts of the world, what is the primary way that HIV is spread?**

This percentage is of the diagnoses are of African Americans.
 * In the US, which population has 50% of all new HIV cases?**


 * PART 3**
 * Find an article published in the last six months that talks about the prevalence or rates of HIV infection in the US or abroad. Put a link to the article here and summarize in 75-100 words.**

The number of infections in Europe of the HIV virus has escalated in recent years and is on the rise. In 2006, there were over 26,000 new cases recorded. The alarming numbers were found in Middle Europe with one and one half million people contracting this deadly disease. Western Europe, especially Great Britain, have also shown numbers that have 'shot up' in the past years. London for example has housed 40% of the new cases that have been reported. The European Industry is approving various vaccines and medicines, attempting to put an end to this devastating epidemic.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3546317,00.html