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media type="file" key="AIDS.m4a"AIDS- **Acquired immune deficiency syndrome** Aids started in the 1980's It was thought to be mainly spread through young men, ecspecially homosexuals but was later discovered hat it moved from person to person, both heterosexual and homosexual through unprotected sex or even birth. -"a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system" -caused by the human immunodeficiency virus -once it gets into the later stages it makes people more likely to have get opportunistic infections and tumors -no cure for HIV or AIDS but there is some treatment that helps to decelerate the progression of the virus depending on how early you catch it -Transmitted through mucous membrane or bodily fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk. -can come from anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, re used needles, during pregnancy, childbirth, and breast feeding. 33 million people have it worldwide Mostly transmitted through sex between male and female but also common for drug users and hemophilliacs Women and teenagers are the fastest raising groups at risk of AIDS Routine screening of blood supply in US began in 1985 Epidemic- infectious disease spreads beyond local population Pandemic- reaches world wide AIDS has become a Pandemic In 2007 AIDS killed about 2.1 million people, and 330,000 of those people where children -over 3/4's of these deaths occurred in sub-saharan africa less than 1% of the sexually active people in urban africa have been tested for HIV or AIDS AIDS is the worst case of HIV HIV is a retrovirus that infects organs of the immune system. For example, it most commonly affects CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells.




 * Today, people living with H.I.V., the AIDS virus, are found throughout the world. AIDS requires only human behavior, primarily engaging in unprotected sex, in order to spread. ||
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_08/images/swatch_01.gif width="24" height="24"]] || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/common/spacer.gif width="8" height="1"]] || 8.0% - 32.0% ||
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_08/images/swatch_02.gif width="24" height="24"]] || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/common/spacer.gif width="8" height="1"]] || 2.0% - 8.0% ||
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_08/images/swatch_03.gif width="24" height="24"]] || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/common/spacer.gif width="8" height="1"]] || 0.5% - 2.0% ||
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_08/images/swatch_04.gif width="24" height="24"]] || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/common/spacer.gif width="8" height="1"]] || 0.13% - 0.5% ||
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_08/images/swatch_06.gif width="24" height="24"]] || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/common/spacer.gif width="8" height="1"]] || 0.00% - 0.03% ||
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