Resource & Guardianship.
Hiv/Aids Project.
An estimated 5.6 million people were living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa in 2009, more than in any other country. It is believed that in 2009, an estimated 310,000 South Africans died of AIDS.Prevalence is 17.8 percent among those aged 15-49, with some age groups being particularly affected. Almost one-in-three women aged 25-29, and over a quarter of men aged 30-34, are living with HIV.
Marking a welcome change from South Africa's history of HIV the South African Government launched a major HIV counselling and testing campaign (HCT) in 2010.By raising awareness of HIV the campaign aims to reduce the HIV incidence rate by 50 percent by June 2011.
The Origin of the virus is yet unknown there are a lot of theories were it came from but none of them is yet true. The virus is started from chimps they ate other monkeys and the viruses of other monkeys spreaded and combined to form the Hiv/ Aids Virus. The Spreading to humans happened with interaction between human and chimp.
Hiv stands for – Human immunodeficiency virus
Process of HIV\AIDS
Aids attacks the immune system itself it makes copies of itself and spreads in this way.There is no cure yet but a procedure that slows down the disease, it helps to build your immune system.
- “Nukes”
- Non-Nucleoside-reverse transcriptase
- Protease
- Fusion inhibitor
- Intergrase inhibitor
The Virus spreads threw three main Ways
- Sexual transmission
- Transmission
- Mother to child Transmission
How to prevent getting HIV/AIDS
Bibliography: www.avert.org/aids-hiv-prevention.htm
www.avert.org.aidssouthafrica.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment