Problem+Research

1. Connor, Elizabeth. "The Effects of HIV on the Body - HIV Center - EverydayHealth.com." //Health Information, Resources, Tools & News Online - EverydayHealth.com//. Everyday Health Inc., June 2011. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. .


 * Can effect the immune system, leading the way for other diseases to attack your body.
 * Symptoms for some people may include, headache, fever, fatigue, and swelling of the lymph nodes in your neck and groin.
 * Can cause various forms of skin oral diseases like herpes. Including the chicken pox and shingles, HSV.
 * HIV effects healthy people and how they function normally. They can experience: AIDS-related dementia, loss of the ability to think properly, brain tumors, and PML, which is a virus that effects people already infected. The symptoms of this disease include trouble walking, talking, and loss of strength in the arms and legs, along with seizures.
 * Weight loss from an HIV positive person is a common effect of the disease. It causes you to lose major amounts of fat and muscle. Making the weight extremely hard to regain. (10% of the body weight can be lost in less than a month)
 * Government income decrease.
 * Tax revenues fall majorly.

2. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. //The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States//. Wasington, D.C. & California: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011. PDF.
 * 600,000 people have already died, and 1.1 million are expected to be living with HIV today.
 * 20% of those infected with HIV don't know they are, and 33% are diagnosed late.
 * There is no cure for HIV/ AIDS, only certain medications that can prolong the illness.
 * Infections are increasing for injecting drug users and gays/ bisexuals.
 * It has caused the U.S. over 27.1 billion dollars to try and fight against HIV/ AIDS. Putting the U.S. in a major money pit.

3. Accrocco, John J. "AIDS in America: By the numbers." //Windy City Times// 31 Aug. 2011: 14+. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA267711751&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * New York has the highest AIDS populated state in the country and has the highest amount of people living with AIDS.
 * The South has some of the highest people living with some conditions related to AIDS.
 * Many families are low- income there and can't afford proper care.
 * Result of major poverty, poor awareness, and limited access to low-cost healthcare.
 * Racism, poverty, and homelessness can also result in interference with proper healthcare.
 * 75% of Americans living with AIDS are men.
 * The rate of Black and Latino women being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS is increasing majorly.
 * Americans between the ages of 30 and 50 have developed AIDS, showing a major rise for the age group in both males and females.
 * 2009, the highest rate of new HIV infections, was showed in the age groups between 40-44.
 * Unprotected sex and unsanitary drug use, are still the two leading ways a person can become diagnosed/ infected with HIV/AIDS.
 * HIV cant be reported or tracked, making more people to live with HIV in the United States than ever before.
 * Without effective and crucial HIV/AIDS funding and awareness, the rates of infections and diseases in people, will continue to grow rapidly.

4. "Introduction to AIDS in Developing Countries: At Issue." //AIDS in Developing Countries//. Ed. Nancy Harris. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2010. At Issue. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CEJ3010254117&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * People do not die from HIV itself, but from the illnesses associated with AIDS, caused by HIV.
 * Most scientists believe that the cause of HIV infection revolved from SIV, a virus found in primates, living in Africa. Spreading to the humans around 20th century.
 * AIDS was the leading cause of for all populations around the world between the ages of 15-59 in 2002.
 * Long-term overlapping partnerships can result in a "superhighway" for HIV to travel around.
 * There's no answer to why all of these people that are infected with HIV/AIDS are in Sub-Saharan Africa, if we did know, that could help us tackle this problem in the most effective way.

5 . "HIV and AIDS Worldwide." //AIDS/HIV//. Barbara Wexler. 2010 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Information Plus Reference Series. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CEJ2133700109&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * Many countries are expanding their knowledge and access to treatment on AIDS, but their awareness and prevention has made little progress, along with their dependable and availability to HIV treatment.
 * We should be focusing on the number of people infected with HIV, instead of reported AIDS cases.
 * So many deaths resulted in the changing of the viruses and the complex factors that determine the developing of HIV.
 * Also medical treatments, that can help hold off the virus can be really expensive.
 * This means that the treatments needed by infected people are inaccessible for people living in developing countries.
 * HIV/ AIDS is predicted to be the third leading cause of death worldwide until 2030.
 * HIV infection has slowed down the fertility rate, and in some areas the population growth rate has been the lowest, even with the epidemic.
 * HIV can be transferred mainly through breast milk, semen, and blood.
 * A major problem public health officials worldwide is the slight chance of a combination of HIV and other interactions.
 * Whatever exposed them to the disease of HIV, can expose others of different types of STD's

6. "HIV/AIDS a primer." //New Internationalist// June 2002: 13. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 3 Nov. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA88267989&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * HIV attacks the immune system, especially CD4 cells, known as T-cells which helps fight infections in the body.
 * The HIV cells "tricks" the T-cells into reproducing numerous copies of the AIDS virus.
 * When most of the CD4 cells are destroyed, the immune system begins to break down, not being able to fight off diseases.
 * The virus may stay dormant for awhile, but eventually the side effects will start to take place.
 * A person with a healthy immune system normally has a CD4 count of about 800-1500.
 * A person that is HIV positive, may have a cell count of about 500 or less.

7. MORE STATISTICS. "HIV/AIDS." //New Internationalist// June 2002: 18+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 3 Nov. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA88267993&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * 20,000,000 people died from the HIV virus since it was first discovered 20 years ago.
 * 36,000,00 people are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. 25,000,000 located in sub- Saharan Africa.
 * 10.3 million people between the ages of 15-24 are living with HIV/AIDS (50% of all new infections)
 * every day 7,000 people are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus just among young people.

"Can we watch one-quarter of some countries' people die? Can 27 million orphans be left to fend for themselves? We may not be able to solve the entire problem today, but let us not be discouraged from taking the steps necessary to begin the journey. " 118 bishops of the Episcopal Church, to President Bush and the US Congress, June 2001
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"No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic." Colin Powell

8. "Living with HIV: Emotional Needs and Support." //Living with HIV: Emotional Needs and Support//. Advert- International HIV & AIDS Charity, 2011. Web. 3 Nov. 2011. .
 * Include shock or anger when being told they're being diagnosed.
 * Fear of how the disease will progress.
 * Fear of isolation from family and friends.
 * Worries bout infecting others.
 * Depression is twice as common for people living with the HIV virus. Compared to the overall population.
 * Friends and relatives will also be emotionally effected by what the HIV-positive person is going through.
 * Depressive symptoms were linked to people having careless behavior when it comes to less safe sexual behavior.
 * Some experience guilt thinking that it was a punishment for them being gay or taking drugs.