HIV+&+AIDS+AG

PART 1 pp. 344-345 What does AIDS stand for? Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

What does HIV stand for? Human immunodeficiency virus.

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

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

When and where did HIV transmission in humans begin? They originated in Africa and then spread to the United States 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 was the name AIDS coined? The name AIDS was coined in 1982, and HIV was found to be the cause of AIDS in 1983-1984.

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? Since HIV is not extremely infectious, it took a while for researchers to conclude that the two diseases had separate affects on the body.

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

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

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

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? Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia have the highest HIV infected amount. Over 20% of this continent is HIV positive. India now has the highest number of people living with HIV infection in the world, followed by South Africa.

PART 2 p. 352 Where do 95% of all HIV infected people live? They live in the poor, low-to middle-income countries, mostly in Africa.

Why is the death rate so how in these countries? The death rate is so high because they do not have the money, medication or help to stop the infection from spreading around their population.

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? 9 out of 10 of the infected people are unaware of their disease which is harmful to others that could get it without even knowing that it has been spread to them or that they are spreading it.

In these countries, who is dying? The young or the old? Is there much difference between the number of men vs. women that die? 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 most parts of the world, what is the primary way that HIV is spread? Sexually transmitted and through child birth.

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

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 HIV infection has carried across the world and continued to spread through out the years. The virus has spread to all sexualities, increasing those affected who may be gay or bisexual. In china alone, the diagnoses of HIV has risen 8% of their population since 2005.Researches have found to believe that the virus spread to China in the 1980’s and has continued to spread the epidemic, and as a whole, the country has begun emphasizing the importance of protected sex and getting tested.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07glob.html?_r=1&oref=slogin