A person will be diagnosed with AIDS after they reach a CD4 count lower than 200. A person may also be diagnosed with AIDS if they experience Pneumocyatis jiroveci pneumonia, Cytomegalovirus, Tuberculosis, Toxoplasmosis, or Cryptosporidiosis (Staff). In simpler words, HIV/AIDS weakens a person’s immune system making them susceptible to different types of infections and other diseases. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS (Staff). Other infections that are not so well known may also cause death in people who have HIV/AIDS.
Interviewee: Young people getting sick with what older or elderly people usually had. People called it the gay disease and at first thought that only gays could get it but later both women and men got it too. Interviewer: What area of California was more affected with the AIDS epidemic?
What we are talking about the United States or other countries, drug addiction is a serious threat to keeping the general public in full. Illegal Drugs such as cocaine and heroin is responsible for countless premature deaths in the United States and the fear is that although aware of the negative health effects of drug abuse, they continue to experiment with dangerous remedy. Dangerous product to create a lot of damage to important parts of the human body. People addicted to work because the disease was fatal dependence. Long and healthy life can never be achieved if you take alcohol and drugs.
Early 1980s USA * AIDS in America AIDS was associated with a high level of prejudice and discrimination because it was linked to groups such as gay men and IV drug users – groups that are already stigmatized. Because of this stigma and the prejudicial beliefs of medical professionals, AIDS in America was largely ignored. The government failed to respond and non-government organizations for support were formed. By the end of 1983 the number of AIDS diagnoses reported in America had risen to 3,064 and of these people 1,292 had died. On 17th September 1985 President Reagan publicly mentioned AIDS for the first time, when he was asked about AIDS funding at a press conference.
They did allow living the AIDS affected people in society, but they neglected them and stayed away from them. There were bad remoras about AIDS in Bonang society. If anyone shared this thing they lost everything, but if they kept in mind it killed that person gradually. Writer clearly shows AIDS in some characters, but the effect was vague. We have to analyze the effect and how much is painful for AIDS affected
Lionel Toribio Eng 11 In the reading “A Mask on the Face of Death” by Richard Selzer, explain how men in Haiti are acquiring the AIDS virus. Selzer feels that religion, voo doo priests led to an influence on prostitutes to continue spreading AIDS virus. In addition Selzer gives an illustration of three prostitutes as being a weakness of men in Haiti to acquired AIDS virus. Two main reasons Aids virus has spread and increase in Haiti are lack of education and bad economic. First of all, Haiti economic in general is really bad and having the AID virus spread around ruined its reputation for tourist to come to visit.
Monks believed people were only sick because God was punishing them for something they had done. The Church believed that illness was a physical sign of sin or weakness of the soul. Both severe physical and mental illnesses were blamed on oneself for taking the “wrong path” at some point in ones life. Some people in Europe blamed the Jews for poisoning the water or practicing witchcraft (Knox). But on the contrary, most public officials believed that it wasn’t revenge from God, it wasn’t the Jews or even a weakness of the soul, but just a disease (Knox).
The damage the it causes to the organs can be fatal. Around 1.5 million Americans suffer from this disease. This disease also varies widely in it severity. Some people have such a mild form of it, they don't even know that they have it while other can control the flare ups from lupus with over the counter medicines
Explain ways in which the AIDS epidemic shook American’s general confidence beginning in the 1980s. In the United States AIDS was detected in 1981. Politicians were slow to respond to the AIDS widespread because they felt that the people that were affected by AIDS were mainly homosexual men and they felt they could ignore this group of people. President Reagan was unwilling to bring AIDS into the spotlight and even ordered his Surgeon General not to discuss the crisis. Reagan felt that it was a homosexual disease however; it did not take very long for the disease to spread beyond the gay community and affect the lives of many Americans (Shultz, 2012).
The government already feels they are bending backwards by allowing medical marijuana, but they still disagree with everything about it. The government even created the movie called Reefer Madness, which is a 1936 movie that wanted to make people believe that when people smoke marijuana than they would become crazy, starting from a hit and run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape, and descent into madness. At the tail end of the eighties, the use of marijuana and other drugs started to reach a new height. At first, lots of people started using the drug because the party scene started to grow increasingly. But by the end of the eighties, society started to abuse cannabis.