INTRODUCTION:

Aids, signs and symtops of Aids,how its contracted,characterisitics of the virus,how it is transmitted,treatment WHAT IS AIDS:

AIDS stands for: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS is a medical condition. A person is diagnosed with AIDS when their immune system is too weak to fight off infections. Since AIDS was first identified in the early 1980s, an unprecedented number of people have been affected by the global AIDS epidemic. Today, there are an estimated 34 million people living with HIV and AIDS worldwide.

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) inaugurated to external during the late 1970s, as surgeons in the United States conveyed a number of infrequent disease settings among otherwise vigorous homosexual men. By 1981 the complaint had been ceremoniously described, and by 1983 investigation in laboratories in the United States and France had recognized its cause as a beforehand unknown human retrovirus, HIV-1. It was resolute that the virus passes from person to individual through bodily fluids. The sickness had seemed at first to be an exclusively American problematic that was centered in the republic's gay groups and among injection drug operators who shared needles, but it speedily became ostensible that Caribbean inhabitants and Africans south of the Sahara were also aggrieved with this depressing ailment, which causes the invulnerable system to collapse. Then in 1985 a associated virus, HIV-2, which passes through heterosexual activity, was revealed to be common in Africa. SYMPTOMS OF AIDS:
Common AIDS symptoms that stem from these opportunistic infections include:

Coughing and shortness of breath Seizures and lack of coordination Difficult or painful swallowing

 Mental symptoms, such as confusion and forgetfulness Severe and persistent diarrhea Fever Vision loss Nausea, abdominal (stomach) cramps, and vomiting Weight loss and extreme fatigue Severe headaches Coma.

Children with AIDS may get the same opportunistic infections as adults with the disease. In addition, they have severe forms of the typically common childhood bacterial infections, such as conjunctivitis (pink eye),ear infections, and tonsillitis.

Through numerous of its countries having contacts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, Europe had no accidental of escaping AIDS; in totaling, many of its hemophiliacs were diseased with plasma from America. By the early 1990s the sickness had spread all over the world, and in 1996 the number of belongings was estimated to beat 22 million. Though about 90 percent of the added than 22 million cases in the world are in evolving republics, various 2 million are not. Indeed this latest outbreak, which at one time was observed as the Black Death of the twentieth period, came not only at a time of medicinal complacency but also at a opinion when any social or radical experience in confronting such a prevalent public health crisis had long since been elapsed. In the West medical knowledge at the turn of the period began at last to have some success in contending with the disease--at least in snowballing existence time--and the din of stigmatism stonewashed slightly. But the wide-ranging is far from finished, and consequences such as a piercing increase in the frequency of tuberculosis also continue to be dealt with. AIDS ordered a number of brutal lessons, and one positions out starkly. The ailment exposed how, in a stage when one can travel to nearly any place on the globe in a substance of periods;

the West is now defenseless to ailments that break out wherever in the creation. Globalization of pathogens seems as foreseeable as the globalization of nutriment and parsimonies, and as a consequence, it seems doubtful that we can hope to practice any reprieve from increases of the kind that stretched from the infection of 1918 to AIDS. The appearance of a new killer infection in the initial 1980s reawakened all the communal health concerns associated with a previous era. AIDS was initially associated to dramatic ancient invasions of the previous such as plague and cholera. Those who favorite authoritarian interference called for the institution of obligatory testing, uniqueness pass for persons who were HIV-positive, and their remoteness. Through the late 1980s the situation broadcast through needle-sharing among penurious intravenous drug users meant that AIDS was blowout more and more by shortage and social desolation rather than insecure sexual interaction. The length of time amongst contracting the HIV virus, the beginning of the AIDS condition, and the death of the subject lengthened as more effective calming treatment slowed the biological development of the sickness. Thus by the 1990s AIDS initiated to be professed as a lingering sickness among minority high-risk assemblies rather than an epidemic infection. AIDS losses have suffered legal and social judgment in the popular mind and by official actions. The implication of bodily and unworldly corruption has persevered as a powerful current trope. A new social agreement of health has been promoted in public wellbeing campaigns from antismoking to AIDS deterrence. It is a contract based upon a classical of deterrence that utilized therapeutic and social methodical examination to exploit fitness chances by heartening persons to modification their existences. However, the municipal and its public health interventions have

not had a monopoly on the advancement of health through lifestyle supervision. Health promotion through lifestyle schooling has also been positively commercialized. Adhvaryu, A. R. and K. Beegle (2009). According to the long-run impressions of adult bereavements on older domiciliary associates in Tanzania the HIV/AIDS is severely varying the demographic landscape in high-prevalence nations in Africa. This study uses a 13-year pane from Tanzania to observe the impacts of prime-age humanity on the time use and healthiness outcomes of grownup adults, through a focus on elongated controls and gender dimensions. Prime-age deaths are inadequately associated with increases in working hours of grown-up women when the departed adult was co-resident in the everyday. The association is stoutest when the deceased adult was breathing with the elderly discrete at the time of death and for deceases in the distant past, portentous that shorter-run studies may not capture the full extent of the significances of adult mortality for survivors. Holding more properties seems to shield older adults from having to work more subsequently these shocks. Most health pointers are not worse for grown-up grownups when a starting age domiciliary member died, although more detached adult deaths are accompanying with an increased prospect of serious infection for the enduring ageing. For deceases of offspring who were not exist in with their parents at baseline, the findings show no impression on hours worked or health consequences. Beegle, K. and D. de Walque (2009). According to Demographic and Socioeconomic Outlines of HIV/AIDS Commonness in Africa the considerate the demographic and socioeconomic pattern of the commonness and commonness of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is critical for developing programs and strategies to combat HIV/AIDS. This paper looks disapprovingly at the methods and analytical trials to study the relations among socioeconomic status and the demographic status and HIV/AIDS. Particular of the misapprehensions about the HIV/AIDS

prevalent are conversed and unusual empirical suggestion from the standing body of work is presented. Several imperative messages appear from the consequences. First, the study of the link among socioeconomic status and HIV faces a range of trials related to definitions, examples, and empirical methods. Second, given the large gaps in signal and the shifting fauna of the wideranging, there is a requirement to linger to improve the suggestion base on the link amongst demographic and socioeconomic status and the prevalence and commonness of HIV/AIDS. Finally, it is difficult to oversimplify results across countries. As the results accessible here and in other studies grounded on Demographic and Health Survey datasets show, few steady and significant patterns of commonness by socioeconomic and demographic position are obvious. Beegle, K., D. Filmer, et al. (2009). According to Orphan hood and the breathing preparations of children in Sub-Saharan Africa the Snowballing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in SubSaharan Africa raises significant concerns about the welfare of enduring children. Studies have created substantial variability across realms in the negative bearings of orphan hood on child health and tutoring. One hypothesis for this changeability is the flexibility of the stretched domestic linkage in some democracies to care for orphans-networks under snowballing pressure by the sheer number of orphans in many surroundings. Using everyday survey data from 21 nations in Africa, this study observes trends in orphan hood and living measures, and the links between the two. The conclusions confirm that orphan hood is snowballing, although not all nations are suffering rapid growths. In numerous states, there has been a shift toward grandparents taking on increased babysitting responsibility-especially where orphan rates are upward rapidly. This suggests some distinction to the claim that the drawn-out network is narrowing, focusing on grandparents who are grown-up and may be less able to monetarily support children than working-age adults.

CONCLUSION: However there are also fluctuations in babysitting outlines in countries with constant orphan rates or low HIV popularity. This advocates future work on bodily schedules should not exclude low HIV/AIDS prevalence realms, and descriptions for deviations should embrace a larger set of features.

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