Aids in the early eighties?
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You're right...The movie Forrest Gump did have AIDS in it--"Jenny", his love, got AIDS from her alternative lifestyle (unprotected sex, intervenous drug use). They don't say "AIDS" in the movie, but she describes the symptoms and the lack of any treatment, which is what AIDS treatments started with back in in the early '80s. Obviously there is no cure--yet. Many people, including some in the government, thought that AIDS was an affliction of the Gay Community and drug users and wasn't important for "normal," heterosexual people, that is, until the heterosexual community started developing the disease as well. Children developed AIDS from being born to HIV positive mothers who got the disease from their unfaithful husbands, young people contracted it from their dentists, etc. It is a horrible disease and brought a real halt to promiscuous behavior that had predominated in the 1960s and 1970s. There was quite a stigma about AIDS for many years and there was a real fear about "catching" it from casual contact with people. Television tried to deal with this with television movies, sitcoms, news broadcasts, 60 Minutes program...the list goes on and on. Mainstream movies about AIDS continue this tradition. When Liz Taylor comforted her gay friend, Rock Hudson, who was a dying of the diesase in 1985, I know many were shocked that she would put herself in such danger (she's still alive, as far as I know, 20+ years later). "Magic" Johnson, the basketball player, came out with the news he was HIV-positive and the media had a field-day with it--other BB players were concerned that he might have infected them by sweating on them. Princess Diana was quite instrumental in getting the issue of compassionate care of AIDS victims to the forefront. She too defied "common sense" and comforted AIDS patients by holding their hands and stroking their hair, etc. These images were broadcast worldwide. I remember as a teenager then thinking that she must be very brave. In effect, she was much more informed than the rest of us. My 2nd cousin died of AIDS. Hope I've helped...Good luck with your assignment!
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AIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. It got into humans by a similar route as some classic Old World infectious diseases. The ancient Old World was the incubator of many diseases like smallpox because it had large human populations in close association with large animal populations, especially those that lived in herds. AIDS followed a similar path.\n\nThe requirements were:\n\na large human population, \na large nearby population of a host animal, \na pathogen that eventually mutates to spread from animal to human, \ninteraction between the species to transmit enough of it to humans to establish a human foothold, which may take millions of individual exposures, \na mutation of same pathogen that can spread from human to human, \nsome method that allows the pathogen to disperse widely so it does not "burn out" in a local population of humans. \nSuch requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu (which actually originated in the New World at Ft. Riley, Kansas). Such conditions MAY eventually be replicated with the bird flu.\n\nAIDS viruses originated in primates as far as is known. Possible ways for this virus to have originally infected humans include the hunting and eating of the original primate species; a bite would be another possible route. The viruses arguably would have remained rare medical curiosities but for 20th century conditions such promiscuity, widespread use of hypodemic needles in medicine and drug addiction, tourist travel, vast economic growth, and transportation improvements such as railroads, air travel, trucking, and shipping. These social and economic changes allowed the viruses to spread worldwide and infect millions of people.\n\nAnother currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS was discussed in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article by freelance journalist Tom Curtis. He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article motivated another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to probe more deeply into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which SIV crossed into humans to become HIV, and thus to start the human AIDS pandemic, some time between 1957 to 1959. See OPV AIDS hypothesis.\n\nIt appears that either HIV existed in very low levels in the United States in periods prior to 1981, or it may have gone extinct in the United States at times, with the present infection established in the USA about 1976. HIV in Africa likewise was at first at levels too low to be noticed. The spread of the infection in both America and Africa was assisted by changing sexual mores related to rapid urbanization and economic change in the late 20th century. In the United States and Africa HIV was at first mostly found only in residents of large cities. The new urban lifestyle fostered greater sexual activity as it often included the breaking of old family and tribal bonds, as indivduals moved to start new lives far from their points of origin. The infection is now more widespread in rural areas, and has appeared in regions such as China and India, where it was previously not evident.\n\nTwo species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa. [1]\n\nBoth species of the virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are believed to have originated in West-Central Africa and jumped species (zoonosis) from primates to humans. HIV-1 evolved from a Simian Immuno
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I believe Fresh Prince first aired in 91 or 92. Nothing to do with the 80s.\n\n>>>80s style\n\n80s style in everything tried very hard to be sophisticated. That applies to architecture, fine art, TV, clothing, cars, music and so forth. Not that it always succeeded, but sophistication was the ideal. That was contrasted by the 70s plastic/futuristic style in just about everything and the early 90s descent into grunge.\n\n>>>80s music. \n\nVery poppy. Very middle-of-the-road. Thanks to MTV pop was THE 80s music.   Think Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.  Even the rock and 'mature' acts like U2 or Genesis were extremely poppy compared to 70s or 90s music. 80s music was very easy to listen to and almost entirely uncontroversial. Madonna was the most controverisal popular artist for songs like "Like a Virgin". That's how uncontroversial 80s music was.\n\nI discount punk as a 70s survivor rather than 80s music, just as I discount early 90s hair metal acts as 80s survivors and defintitely not 90s music.\n \n>>>80s technology development\n\nSuprisingly large on the home front. At the beginning of the 80s VCRs were almost unheard of in private homes and even medium sized cities didn't have any video rental outlets at all. Microwave ovens, personal computers, remote control TVs and cell phones were also practically unheard of. By the end of the decadee those things had all become commonplace.\n\n\n>>>>human values etc\n\nConfused. \n\nDespite the popular image of the "Greed is Good" 80s yuppie the 80s saw LiveAid. It saw the real rise of the environment movement away from the leftist hippy fringe and into the mainstream. It saw the start of the 'War on Drugs'. It saw a massive international mobilastion against apartheid in South Africa. It saw mass rallies against nuclear weapons. Social politics in movies and on TV in the 80s was far more common than anything today. \n\nOverall it was very odd. Society seemed more socially aware and socially active than at any period since the 60s, while at the same time individuals were astoundingly blase.
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There are several organisations involved in checking and treatment of AIDS. Try to get in touch with APAC.
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do you know that half the African continent is dying of aids and they have no medication ! if you could find an organisation that deals with that problem I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated !
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He doesn't remember, but it was with a woman.  He's had HIV for over 10 years.\n\nHe basically dipped his stick into too many skanks....
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click here:http://www.bestandworst.com/r/?id=4429\nhttp://www.gibbsmagazine.com/Where%20AIDS%20Came%20From.htm\nhttp://www.alldeaf.com/topic-debates/25274-where-did-aids-come.html\nhttp://beatnikboy.tripod.com/aids.htm\nhttp://www.natap.org/2002/9retro/day0.htm\n\n\nThe origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine programme being blamed. So what it the truth? Just where did AIDS come from?\n\nThe first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (more about this period can be found on our history page). A number of gay men in New York and San Francisco suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS was made soon after. While some were initially resistant to the connection (and indeed remain so today), there is now clear evidence to prove that HIV does cause AIDS. So, in order to find the source of AIDS, it is necessary to look for the origin of HIV, and find out How, When and Where HIV first began to cause disease in humans.
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It may be the boldest answer you will get in this forum, but I have AIDS. To truely put a face to this epidemic I would be honored to send you a digital photograph of myself that you can use in your educational campaign. If interested just let me know. Email to cruiserinthecity@yahoo.com and put AIDSPHOTO as the subject. Serious inquiries only please. Thank you.
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how about this:\nAIDS is possibly the worst epidemic ever encountered by man-kind, but the world can change the course of Africa's future by donating food, water, money, and moral support.  One of the people lending a hand with the moral support of the war against AIDS is an HIV- positive singer by the name of Grace Nakawunde.\n\nyes? no?  you decide.
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1.HIV/AIDS looks to be prominent among the gay community probably becoz this virus and the disease was first discovered in gays and was thought to infect only the gays,thus it was termed as a gay related disease but it is well know now that even hetrosexuals can get it if u sleep around with people without any protection.\n2.How we humans got it remains a mystery but scientists now belive that we got it from their bite or when man consumed bush meat.\n3.No America was not the first place,it just that this disease was first discoved in America in 1980's.It was know to have existed in Africa even earlier in the 1950's.
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You can find a complete answer to your question at:\n\nwww.aids.about.com
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I'm not really sure, but I work in a hospital and people lived until their 40's contracting aids, is sad though, because not allot of people, not even their family members come to visit them, even when they die, I never see anyone. What ignorant people we have this days....I personally would not have a problem having a friend with aids, I think true friends stick till the end! I always talk to them when I get a chance and allot of them make mistakes, is not only people that are gay, there are allot of ways in getting aids, like blood transfusion, even your partner(that's why is better to test yourself before going any further; since condoms are not so reliable. I wish people just had more sympathy for others than being more self center....
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I believe it was in 1982. Around that time anyway.
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Since AIDS came onto the scene and we've ben educated about how its transferred, more people are being cautious. People who date and/or having sexual relations tend to protect themselves a lot better and a lot more than 20 years ago. Married people usually get check ups before marriage to ensure nothing is wrong with each other (AIDS, STD, etc). \n\nA family coping with someone with AIDS is no different than a family dealing with cancer. Both can be treated with meds, however, there is no cure for either. Some recover, some don't........My hubby's best friend died from AIDS, got a bad blood transfusion long before they screened things the way they do now. He lingered for many years, some good days, some bad. AIDS doesn't know homosexual, or drug user...It can happen to the average person. No one is immune to it, you just have to try and protect yourself from it and make life about life, not death!
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Here are some surprising facts to help answer your question:\n\n* Between 11 and 15% of U.S. AIDS cases occur in people over age 50\n* Between 1991 and 1996, AIDS cases in the over-50 population rose more than twice as fast as those among younger adults.\n* Despite myths and stereotypes, many seniors are sexually active, and, some are drug users; therefore, their behaviors can put them at risk for HIV infection.\n* Health care and service providers---and older adults, themselves---do not realize that seniors are at the same risk as other age populations; professionals often are reluctant to discuss or question matters of sexuality with aging patients/clients.\n* Rates of HIV infection (not AIDS) in seniors are especially difficult to determine because older people are not routinely tested.\n* Seniors are unlikely to consistently use condoms during sex because of a generational mindset and unfamiliarity with HIV/STD prevention methods.\n\nBut to really answer your question, no- I don't think you should worry - you should be AWARE. Value your life and your health at every age, and always love, protect, and take care of yourself.
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Did not know she had aids
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AIDS -- 10 years ago (about) death was certain and now people live without even getting sick\nCOMPUTERS - Think of all the changes in 10 years...\n\nIf that doesn't float you boat go to this amazing site for LOTS of ideas -- the link is for AIDS but you can just go to www.goldenessays.com and click on free essays and there are hundreds there!!