Hiv/Aids and Its Victims

Hiv/Aids and Its Victims

  • Submitted By: keish
  • Date Submitted: 05/18/2010 9:17 PM
  • Category: English
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Main Topic: Investigation of Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Its method of Transmission, the Socioeconomic Impact, and Strategies for Preventing and Coping.
Creative Topic: AIDS Victims Promiscuous or Platonic
Sub-Topic: A short look into the transmission Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Thesis: According to The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2005 (HIV) Human Immune deficiency Virus, it is the virus that causes (AIDS). (AIDS) mean Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is a disease in which the body immune system is broken down. Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic has a strenuous impact on many aspect of the global socioeconomic situation. The number of people that are infected with this disease is on the increase everyday right around the world. According to Joint United Nation (JUN) studies done on HIV/AIDS have estimated that there are approximately thirty-three million (33m) people living with this disease worldwide. HIV/AIDS surveillance update in the Americas done by World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), work group reported in the year 2008, that nearly two million, six hundred thousand (2.6m) people in the Americas are infected with HIV/AIDS. Of these, one million, three hundred thousand (1.3m) live in the Latin America, three hundred and sixty thousand in the Caribbean and almost one million in North America. Statistic put out by the National HIV/STI Programme (NHP) in Jamaica on Monday April 12, 2010 through the Daily Observer, indicated that the epidemic is generalized but are more prevalence in some key
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population groups such as, sex workers who stands at nine percent (9%), prison inmate at three point five...

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