Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
All You Need To Know About AIDS - Term Papers

All You Need To Know About AIDS



Introduction:
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at
present a senten,ce of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost
one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and
that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In my
part of the country, one man in 10 may already be carrying the AIDS virus.
While the figures may currently be less in much of the rest of the country,
this is changing rapidly. There curreently is neither a cure, nor even
an effective treatment, and no vaccine either. But there are things that
have been PROVEN immensely effevctive in slowing the spread of this
hideously lethal ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated
that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That
figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found,
most likely occur here among heteroosexual folks.

AIDS was first seen as a dise.ase of gay males in this
country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture
in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts
per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among
heterosexual (straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that
rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease,
and rectal sex is a common practice among gay males. For these reasons,
the disease spread in the gay male populsation of this country immensely
more quickly than in other populations. It became to be thought of as a
"gay disease". Because the disease is spread primarily by exposure of
ones blood to ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.


Already a member? Login

from RNA to DNA. Such reverse or
"retro" flow of information does not occur at all in any DNA virus or
any other living things. Hence, the virus was said to belong to the
rare group of virues called "Retro Viruses". Research provided the
means to test donated blood for the presence of the antibodies to the
virus, astronomically reducing the chance of ones getting AIDS from a
blood transfusion. This was one of the first real breakthroughs. The
same discoveries that allowed us to make our blood bank blood supply far
safer also allowed us to be able to tell (in most cases) whether one has
been exposed to the AIDS virus using a simple blood test.

The Types of ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library.
Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports,
and research papers in 2 minutes or less.


CITE THIS PAGE:

All You Need To Know About AIDS. (2005, November 17). Retrieved December 23, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/All-You-Need-Know-About-AIDS/36603
"All You Need To Know About AIDS." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 17 Nov. 2005. Web. 23 Dec. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/All-You-Need-Know-About-AIDS/36603>
"All You Need To Know About AIDS." Essayworld.com. November 17, 2005. Accessed December 23, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/All-You-Need-Know-About-AIDS/36603.
"All You Need To Know About AIDS." Essayworld.com. November 17, 2005. Accessed December 23, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/All-You-Need-Know-About-AIDS/36603.
JOIN NOW
Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays


PAPER DETAILS
Added: 11/17/2005 08:50:29 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 3033
Pages: 12

Save | Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS
Save and find your favorite essays easier

SIMILAR ESSAYS
» How The Government May Have Cre...
» Sex Has A Price Tag! And Don't ...
» Mononucleosis 2
» Teenage Sex
» Teenage Sex
» Sex Education: Does It Really W...
» Aids- Sleep With The Angels
» The Controversy Surrounding The...
» Sex Is For Marriage Only
» Angina Pectoris
Copyright | Cancel | Contact Us

Copyright © 2024 Essayworld. All rights reserved