Hiv/aidsJoin now to read essay Hiv/aidsThe issue of HIV/AIDS has been a developing concern since the early 1980s. It is an issue that has sparked fear in everyone, but “society” has narrowed it down to certain people that can contract the AIDS virus. The stereotypical “AIDS” victim is not an IV drug user or a practicing homosexual; it is anyone, anyone who has unprotected sex, anyone who has had a blood transfusion in the past twenty years, or anyone who was innocently brought into the world by an infected mother. As unfair as it is, HIV/AIDS can attack someone whom society would have never “branded” as a stereotypical AIDS victim. The issue of HIV/AIDS needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed now.
HIV/AIDS will have a huge social impact, especially in the next five years. According to CDC data, between 5 in 8 Americans, or about 10 percent, have HIV/AIDS. When compared to a comparable number who do not have AIDS, this means that, for each HIV/AIDS patient, 2 out of 3 will become symptomatic. This would be more than half of the average lifetime AIDS patient in the US, and this means that about half of the current infected population would be AIDS victims. With the rise of social networks on the internet and social media and a wider number of users accessing information, the number of people without AIDS getting tested and receiving treatment is significantly increasing.
If such a crisis was averted and the need for treatment, why was it not addressed? How can we be sure that HIV/AIDS doesn’t spread? We are going to need answers to this question soon.
The U.S. Government is doing everything possible to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS into a general population, including screening the population by all health-care providers. As of July 2015, over 3.6 million people in the United States had been tested, almost half the US population, for HIV/AIDS (up from 1.2 million persons last year). About 15 percent of the persons that received HIV/AIDS had high risk of developing HIV/AIDS.
At the same time, according to CDC data, in the United States, among AIDS patients, between 65 and 94 percent (6 million people) have an undetectable viral load, a number that is the highest of any virus in the world. A good number of these patients are unaware of their viral status and are not being detected. Some of these infected individuals have an undetectable viral load over the course of their lives.
The problem is that the AIDS epidemic has grown tremendously with every passing year. As we can see here in the data, the AIDS epidemic is so massive that it affects more people—and it is getting larger in proportion to the population. With only about five percent of HIV/AIDS victims out there having AIDS each year and fewer than three in 10 (27 percent) being HIV/AIDS victims, the number of AIDS cases can be enormous.
In any case, at this point, the focus is not only on saving lives, but about trying to lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS. In America, in part, this is about improving lives for all, not just those affected by the epidemic. It’s the best that all Americans can expect.
HIV/AIDS will have a huge social impact, especially in the next five years. According to CDC data, between 5 in 8 Americans, or about 10 percent, have HIV/AIDS. When compared to a comparable number who do not have AIDS, this means that, for each HIV/AIDS patient, 2 out of 3 will become symptomatic. This would be more than half of the average lifetime AIDS patient in the US, and this means that about half of the current infected population would be AIDS victims. With the rise of social networks on the internet and social media and a wider number of users accessing information, the number of people without AIDS getting tested and receiving treatment is significantly increasing.
If such a crisis was averted and the need for treatment, why was it not addressed? How can we be sure that HIV/AIDS doesn’t spread? We are going to need answers to this question soon.
The U.S. Government is doing everything possible to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS into a general population, including screening the population by all health-care providers. As of July 2015, over 3.6 million people in the United States had been tested, almost half the US population, for HIV/AIDS (up from 1.2 million persons last year). About 15 percent of the persons that received HIV/AIDS had high risk of developing HIV/AIDS.
At the same time, according to CDC data, in the United States, among AIDS patients, between 65 and 94 percent (6 million people) have an undetectable viral load, a number that is the highest of any virus in the world. A good number of these patients are unaware of their viral status and are not being detected. Some of these infected individuals have an undetectable viral load over the course of their lives.
The problem is that the AIDS epidemic has grown tremendously with every passing year. As we can see here in the data, the AIDS epidemic is so massive that it affects more people—and it is getting larger in proportion to the population. With only about five percent of HIV/AIDS victims out there having AIDS each year and fewer than three in 10 (27 percent) being HIV/AIDS victims, the number of AIDS cases can be enormous.
In any case, at this point, the focus is not only on saving lives, but about trying to lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS. In America, in part, this is about improving lives for all, not just those affected by the epidemic. It’s the best that all Americans can expect.
HIV/AIDS will have a huge social impact, especially in the next five years. According to CDC data, between 5 in 8 Americans, or about 10 percent, have HIV/AIDS. When compared to a comparable number who do not have AIDS, this means that, for each HIV/AIDS patient, 2 out of 3 will become symptomatic. This would be more than half of the average lifetime AIDS patient in the US, and this means that about half of the current infected population would be AIDS victims. With the rise of social networks on the internet and social media and a wider number of users accessing information, the number of people without AIDS getting tested and receiving treatment is significantly increasing.
If such a crisis was averted and the need for treatment, why was it not addressed? How can we be sure that HIV/AIDS doesn’t spread? We are going to need answers to this question soon.
The U.S. Government is doing everything possible to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS into a general population, including screening the population by all health-care providers. As of July 2015, over 3.6 million people in the United States had been tested, almost half the US population, for HIV/AIDS (up from 1.2 million persons last year). About 15 percent of the persons that received HIV/AIDS had high risk of developing HIV/AIDS.
At the same time, according to CDC data, in the United States, among AIDS patients, between 65 and 94 percent (6 million people) have an undetectable viral load, a number that is the highest of any virus in the world. A good number of these patients are unaware of their viral status and are not being detected. Some of these infected individuals have an undetectable viral load over the course of their lives.
The problem is that the AIDS epidemic has grown tremendously with every passing year. As we can see here in the data, the AIDS epidemic is so massive that it affects more people—and it is getting larger in proportion to the population. With only about five percent of HIV/AIDS victims out there having AIDS each year and fewer than three in 10 (27 percent) being HIV/AIDS victims, the number of AIDS cases can be enormous.
In any case, at this point, the focus is not only on saving lives, but about trying to lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS. In America, in part, this is about improving lives for all, not just those affected by the epidemic. It’s the best that all Americans can expect.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the late stage of an infection that is generally acknowledged to be caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a retrovirus that attacks and destroys certain white blood cells. The targeted destruction weakens the body’s immune system and makes the infected person susceptible to infections and diseases that ordinarily would not be life threatening. AIDS was first identified in the