what is the cause of the pandemic AIDS?
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people not being educated on how to prevent spreading the virus
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The AIDS epidemic was discovered June 18, 1981, when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five gay men in Los Angeles. Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not gay. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome.\nThree of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:\nA plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. \nHIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969. \nHIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976. Two 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.[88] Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin. The origin of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). It is established that HIV-2 originated from the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon. Freelance journalist Tom Curtis discussed one currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article. He put forward what is now known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis, which suggests that AIDS was inadvertently 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, thus starting the human AIDS pandemic.
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Africa has been devastated by AIDS. Thailand has a 40% infection, the Caribbean Islands are awash in AIDS, especially Haiti. You will find the nations with the least financial ability to be the highest in AIDS and STDS...cannot afford meds or protections...even education seems to be an overwhelming problem in these countries.
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(m)\n\nImmediate causes\nThe immediate causes of the epidemic are linked to HIV´s modes of transmission. These include unprotected penetrative se; transmission from mother to child before, during or after birth; and transmission through transfusions and the sharing of blood or blood products.\n\nUnderlying causes include societal denial and weak political commitment; poverty and social inequality; gender divisions; population movement as a result of famine, war and other causes; human rights abuse; and lack of dialogue about sex and sexuality. All of these make it likely that infection continues to spread.\n\nYoung people may be especially vulnerable to infection. They may not receive appropriate kinds of sex and personal relationship education. They may lack access to relevant social support including youth friendly counselling and sexual health services. Young women (and some young men) may be at particular risk through involvement in sex work and prostitution. The tendency for older and more sexually experienced men to prefer younger sexual partners also enhances their vulnerability.\n\nImmediate effects\nHIV and AIDS have serious and immediate effects within the family and household. As parents and young people are affected, household income may fall. Additional costs of healthcare, funerals and transport to clinics and hospital may have to be met. While many households develop new ways of coping, other are severely stressed. The changing balance of labour within the home may encourage less labour intensive and less nutritious crops to be grown. Widows and elderly people may lack financial and moral support when, as the sole adult within the family, they have to take on added responsibilities for the care of children and young people.\n\nIn order to help families cope, children, and especially girls, may be kept away from school. Yong people who are orphaned as a result of AIDS may face new risks. They may lack access to a stable and secure social network of adults and may be vulnerable to child labour, exploitation, prostitution and sexual abuse.\n\nThe effects of HIV and AIDS on the health sector can be dramatic. As the demand for health services rises, the capacity of the health care system to respond may diminish. Loss of staff through HIV-related illness and death may compound the difficulties facing already over-crowded hospitals and clinics. While new and potentially more effective drugs have been found, these remain out of reach of all but the richest people in the majority of developing countries.\n\nLonger-term effects\nIn the longer-term, HIV and AIDS will have a profound demographic impact. In the most seriously affected countries, life expectancy has already been reduced and past gains in infant mortality are being eroded and even reversed.\n\nAt the macro-economic level, HIV and AIDS can cause a decline in aggregate savings and investment, reduce profits and incentives for business to invest, and lead to a long-term decline in productivity and consumption.\n\nIn time, the epidemic will have a serious impact on all sectors of society. Agriculture is likely to be affected by a shift from long-term planning to short-term survival. Al employment sectors will suffer, especially those with a highly mobile workforce such as the transport industry, the armed forces, seasonal farm labour and construction work. The most vulnerable sectors of the economy are those heavily dependent on highly educated and experienced staff in short supply. These include banking and commerce, universities and schools, government and public services.\n\nAny weakening of the education system will make it more difficult for young people to receive information about AIDS before they become sexually active. A decline in the quantity and quality of education is likely to take place as teachers become ill and die. This has serious consequences for future economic development and growth.\n\nThe inter-generational consequences of HIV and AIDS are
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HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is primarily a heterosexual disease; and many factors contribute towards it : low education levels, male-oriented societies with multiple partners and wives the norm, traditional healing/witchcraft beliefs (eg belief that sleeping with a virgin cures AIDS, discouragement of condoms), poverty/malnutrition and concomitant illnesses accelerating HIV progression, slow governmental reaction and lack of political leadership and will (South Africa), lack of money for adequate anti-retrovirals (and poor compliance due to lack of education), and a blind eye turned on the problem by the rest of the world when compared to ridiculously insignificant global problems (comparatively speaking) such as bird flu etc.\n\nIt is an absolute tragedy, and has decimated many communities (and continues to do so).
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i live in south africa, that willhelp very much!!!  But our government cant even get antiretroviral drugs to help people with aids to them, how will they get a vaccine to them?  Our health minister promotes the eating of garlic as a cure against aids and our former vice president said that if you showered after having sex you reduce your chances of getting aids.  Heaven help my country
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not valid at all. there are tens of thousands of studies that reinforce the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. the virusmyth people are only serving to weaken HIV prevention efforts by destroying the public trust in health providers (public, private and otherwise).\n\nthe National Institutes of Health have a factsheet to repsond to the HIV denialists (who rank down there with Holocaust deniers in terms of credibility).\n\nhttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm Read it and think it over.
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HIV is the virus.  it stands for human immunodeficiency virus.  AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is the disease.  it breaks down the bodies immune system; its ability to fight off disease.  it causes the body to turn on itself.  basically, if a person has this disease, the common flu could kill him.\n\nthe treatments they have today are such that a person can live a fairly normal life for years after being diagnosed.  magic johnson has had AIDS for several years and he's still kicking.\n\nto prevent getting this disease, don't share dope needles.  don't engage in unprotected sex. the surest form of prevention is to remain abstinate.\n\nkinda long winded i know, but i hope it helps.  take care.
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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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HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) presents a number of challenges to finding a cure:\n1) Whenever you get a virus or bacterial disease, the medicine that you received typically doesn't kill the virus or bacterial directly. Instead it helps your immune system fight it by making it more difficult for the virus to reproduced or a range of other techniques. Your immune system will do still most of the work in defeating the infection. The HIV virus attacks the immune system. As it result this reduces the effectiveness of most traditional techniques.\n2) It mutates quickly. A drug that work effectively now will eventually stop working (in the case of AIDS it stops working even before the person infected is cured of the HIV virus requiring drug cocktails and other techniques)\n3) Because of 2 many slight variation of the virus exist out there. An effective vaccine would have to target most or all of them. This is a problem because the best treatments for a virus is a vaccine. \nThat there is no cure for a disease is not uncommon. There is no cure for the flu, a virus that kills more people every year in the US than does AIDS. There is no cure for the common cold (another virus), herpes (another virus), malaria (bacteria), ...
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AIDS is caused by a virus. The history problem is the number of people that have died from it or will die. Incompetence in the medical profession as well as the poor handling of the problem by governments have been the biggest problem. The virus has the ability to mutate so quickly which has also presented a problem. My hypothesis for a solution would be to reduce the viral load then slow the immune response without hindering the power of the immune system. The top medical researchers in the world can explain how a reduction of virus load could be accomplished with alcohol ( a concentration not producing intoxication will be very sufficient ). A top AIDS researcher can verify research that has slowed the immune response so that cells survive ( I believe the jargon in medicine calls it entry inhibitors ). Perhaps AIDS researchers would verify the same thing could be accomplished with peppermint oil lozenges. This could be a less expensive solution to help third world countries. After this treatment for a short period of time medical researchers could introduce a vaccine (even a non-specific one) into the patients bloodstream. This treatment uses the natural immune system which means there wouldn't be the problems we now have in the virus mutating so rapidly rendering the drugs used now useless against it. If medical professionals really want to help people perhaps it could be a very good solution.
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The reason for the spread of HIV, where ever a person might live, is pretty much the people's own actions.  With the info we have now, barring blood transfusions (and even then rare since blood is tested) and freaky things like a maniac poking someone with an infected needle, the disease is almost 100% preventable. It is quite simple.  Don't hop into bed with everyone you see.  Don't do intravenous drugs.  How hard is that?
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Aids occurs from unsafe sexual contact, affected syringes, donated blood from an aids affected mother to her child. Its symptoms generally show after sometime
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AIDS is not the cause by a virus called HIV. In Fact, HIV has never been proven that been exists.
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Currently the top three causes of worldwide death are heart disease, stroke, respiratory infections.   AIDS is number four right now with 2.8 million deaths, but is set to fill the number 3 slot fairly soon.  By the year 2030, AIDS cases could reach 120 million!  \nJeepers!!\n\nBTW, are you asking about the worldwide top three causes of death, or the U.S. top three causes??
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ADDENDUM: Way to take a quote out of context, you FRAUD! You managed to miss the sentence that followed immediately: "There is no single scientific paper that proves HIV causes AIDS. INSTEAD THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAPERS CONTAINING A WIDE RANGE OF EVIDENCE THAT, TAKEN TOGETHER, MAKE THE CASE OVERWHELMING."\n\nYou simply stopped reading after the first full stop. You also probably have no experience reading scientific literature, because if you did, you'd know that major ideas in science are supported by SEVERAL peer-reviewed sources, and that consistency in the literature is the basis for a STRONG argument. \n</addendum>\n\nPrevailing distrust of the pharmaceutical/medical establishment has led to a wave of conspiracy theorists (aka, wearers of tin-foil hats) who do not believe in the etiological connection between HIV and AIDS. \n\n1. Strength. A strong association, such as a five- or tenfold increase in risk, is more likely to be causal than a weak association (such as a 10% increase in risk) because a weak association is more likely to be spurious, arising from bias, confounding, or chance. However, a weak association does not rule out causality! Nonetheless, HIV is present in all cases of AIDS, which is a pretty strong association, don't you think?\n\n2. Consistency. If the association is repeatedly observed in different populations in different settings, it is more likely to be causal than an isolated observation. For example, AIDS has been shown to affect gays, Haitians, Africans and hemophiliacs -- their only commonality would be HIV-infection. However, lack of consistency does not rule out a causal connection; some causes only work in certain circumstances, say in the presence of cofactors. These cofactors include genetic predisposition to delay onset of disease compared to other cases.\n\n3. Specificity. The idea here is that a cause should lead to a single effect, not multiple effects. HIV --> immunodeficiency syndrome. This may have been a holdover from infectious disease thinking; it is clearly wrong in many other circumstances. For instance, smoking causes lung cancer, bladder cancer, emphysema, and heart disease.\n\n4. Temporality. A cause must precede an effect in time. This one is ALWAYS true! HIV infection **always** precedes development or AIDS. It has never been shown that AIDS patients acquire HIV subsequent to the onset of syndrome.\n\n5. Biological gradient. This is the presence of a dose-response gradient; if more of a dose leads to more of an effect, this supports the idea of causality. A dose-response gradient is helpful, but its absence doesn't rule out causation (DES and vaginal adenocarcinoma, asbestos and mesothelioma) and its presence doesn't prove causation (since it may result from confounding or bias). In this sense, there is such thing as an infectious dose. Theren eeds to be a fairly significant amount of virus in order to generate infection and subsequent disease. Exposure to one virus particle does not necessitate infection because the body's immune response can still clear it.\n\n6. Plausibility. The idea of causation must be biologically plausible. This may be elusive because we hold many fixed ideas; many people doubted for years that peptic ulcer disease cold be infectious in origin! OK, this is bulletpoint you take most issue with. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past twenty-plus years elucidating the mechanism of infection from how it enters the body, where it lands (receptor sites, specific responses), how it propagates, and how it spreads. The explantations they have come up with are plenty biologically plausible (that is assuming oyu understand advanced biological concepts).\n\n7. Coherence. The idea of causation must accord with other observations. For example, as Hill wrote, a causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer was coherent with the observations that smokers had dysplasia of the bronchial epithelium, or th
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first of all, it's spelled PANDEMIC, not PENDAMIC. and a disease becomes a pandemic when it is occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population.