HIV and AIDS :: STD, HIV, AIDS

human immunodeficiency virus/ helpINTRODUCTION At the set-back of the 20th Century it was believed by many, including the United States Patent Office, that there was aught else to invent. Now, 100 years youthfulr at the beginning of the forward-looking millenium the quaint Egyptian philosopher is more relevant, there is nothing newly under the insolate. While HIV/ support may be a new disease, there is nothing new about a novel epidemic, which merchantman potenti completelyy or actually decimate a population. In the late middle ages, the Black, now known as the Bubonic Plague, swept through with(predicate) Europe killing virtually half the population. It was introduced by a whizz or small group of rats that came to Italy abroad a trading embark from what is now Turkey. Small Pox transmitted by trade goods from the Hudson mouth Company wiped out entire Native American tribes. thither are other examples of diseases accidentally introduced to a population that had no geneti c granting immunity to them. Not to mention NASAs fear of an unbeatable super virus from outmost space. Now as in previous diseases, one of the dangers of HIV/AIDS is not only in its plague proportions but also in the almost superstitious misunderstanding of the virus itself. In the treatment of all illness, it is necessary to understand the emotional, economic, psychological and sometimes even political pertain that is brought about by the disease. This is particularly true with a disease that is as devastating and heretofore misunderstood as HIV/AIDS. AIDS is the penalization of God on sinners. AIDS is a plot by the CIA and the due south African Government to wipe out the population of black Africa. AIDS is the result of medical experimentation during the development of the polio vaccine employing the practise of rieces monkeys as guinea pigs. AIDS is this, AIDS is that AIDS is the destruction of the world. on that point is nothing new under the Sun. As we enter a new mill enium, we are still controlled by prejudice, fear and superstition. AIDS is not the end of the world, it is simply the latest challenge the medical community needs to meet. There are new things to invent including an immunization and cure for HIV/AIDS. unless before that we must overcome the age-old superstitious fears of the unknown and stick out above the prejudices that we harbor of, those people. Let us understand HIV/AIDS. AIDS, the acronym for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the end stage disease of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).