why does Finland have low HIV cases?
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CIA - The World Factbook -- Finland\n\nhttp://www.childinfo.org/eddb/hiv_aids/factsheets/pdfs/Finland_en.pdf
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cause it's a smaller country
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Aids infects those don't follow God's moral laws.\nFaithful Christians that don't cheat on their spouses have a very low rate of infection from hiv.
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The problem lies with the culture of the areas.  They don't realize that sex spreads HIV.  In fact its thought that the only way to get rid of the disease is to have sex with a virgin.  Its a sad world we live in indeed.  Also note that they are used to poor hygiene.  This is a leading problem.  I'm not saying everyone over there is like that, but some people is all it takes.    On a side note, the fact that we aren't exposed to the viral epidemics (affects our tolerance and our immune systems ability to cope with the disease) has a small part to play as well.
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Yes. The Government doesn't do enough to help prevent HIV and the spreading of Aids. Some people still think by raping white women or babies cure Aids. To educate the people will be the main part in preventing the spread of the disease.
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There needs to be more education particular in third world countries about the possible consequences of unsafe sex - HIV/AIDS being one of them.\n\nIn developed countries, try to stop needle sharing between drug users to bring down the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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The risk of getting HIV from a dentist or his staff is very low due to the fact that the virus can not live without a human host for more than a matter of minutes and even then there must be an opening in the recipients(patient) skin or mucous membrane AND blood from the HIV infected person (dentist) has to touch that opening for a transfer of the virus to occur. It is far more likely for the patient to give the virus to the dentist. However either situation is very rare. \n\n   The likelyhood of Hepititis being transferred is far more likely because the hepititis virus does not need a human host to live and actually lies dormant in human blood that has dried on a surface outside the body. It is reactivated when it becomes wet again which makes this virus much more dangerous in terms of getting it at a dental office. The dentist and their staff are more likely to get the virus than to give the virus in both cases but are at much higher risk of getting Hepititis than HIV.
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According to UNAIDS website there are 2900 people in Lebanon who have HIV.  The numbers on full blown AIDS where not listed.
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Most doctors are not willing to prescribe tamiflu for anyone not sick and needing the aniviral at that moment.  The manufacturer of the drug became upest with so many Docs in the US giving tamiflu to people to have around "just in case" and cut supplies to the US as a result. The Federal and some state governments are also stocking up on the drug incase of an outbreak futher tighening current avaliblity of the drug. So with the lower supply few doctors are willing to do so now.
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If your talking broadly, Africa is the #1 leading country with AIDS/HIV. As far as locally, anywhere. That's the scary thing about today. Any one could look squeaky clean on the outside and be infested on the inside. That's why protection, manogamy, and abstinence are so highly suggested.
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South Africa: The ANC government barred South Africa's foremost Aids lobby group, the TAC (Treatment action campaign) from participating in a major international United Nations Aids forum.\n\nThe government keeps punting their "cultural" aids cure of Africa potatoes, garlic and olive oil in a country with one of the highest Aids infection rates while at the same time censoring organizations who dispute their policies and want the population to receive real medicine.\n\nThis bothers me because if you think that you are going to cure Aids with potatoes and garlic you should not be the minister of health of a country like South Africa.
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22% of south africans have AIDS, it's an enormous health care problem, most of them do not get treatmen as the government is in denial about helping them.  The disease may kill up to 10 million South Africans in the next 20 years if nothing is done. \n\nApart from HIV/AIDS, there is a lack of health care facilities for the poor in South Africa as they don't have adequate resources and medical staff to take care of their citizens.  Other problems are with maternal health, and problems caused by poor quality of water.
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No.  HIV and AIDS do not care anything about the economic status of the person or country.\n\nFor example, Magic Johnson has HIV.  And he is wealthy.  The US has a fairly large population of HIV-infected persons and is one of the wealthiest countries in the world.\n\nNo, what will help ease the spread of HIV (and AIDS) is education about the virus and the disease.  It's in the poorest countries that this type of education is the worst.\n\nAs far as eradicating AIDS, the only thing that will do that at this point is a vaccine.
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*Pondering awhile* The official date for the beginning of the AIDS epidemic is marked as 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:\n   1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n   2. HIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.\n   3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.\nTwo 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. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin. The origin of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). The origin of HIV-2 has been established to be the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon.\n\nOne currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS was discussed in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article by freelance journalist Tom Curtis. He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950's 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 encouraged another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to travel to Africa for 7 years of research 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 mutated into HIV and started the human AIDS epidemic, some time between 1957 to 1959.\nFor quite a bit more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV.2FAIDS
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I seriously doubt it.  I guess, most of these people don't understand that if it was that easily spread, almost everyone would have it by now.  Kissing will NOT spread it...oral sex is said to have an EXTREMELY low chance because there are not any documented cases that it has been spread in this way.  Oral sex is more likely to spread other STDs...such as herpes.\n\nIf you've let a guy who is HIV positive go down on you, relax.  I don't think you've contracted it this way.  Go ahead and get checked if you are worried, though.  You should be checked regularly, anyway.\n\nBy the way, its not just plain *ucking stupid to even let him.  Remember, most of the people who answer questions on this site aren't the brightest people around.
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No disease is accepted by anyone if their is a cure available.but the irony about AIDS is that Its not curable but completely preventable...thats why the interventions are targeted to youth to make them acknowledged so that they can prevent it..
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If u r talking abt hiv 1 and hiv 2.. then these r 2 different kinda HIV viruses.. HIV 1 is the more common version of hiv virus which infects ppl.. hiv2 is more rare.. it mostly is found in Africa.\n\nI hope u were asking abt these numbers.