How many people are affected by AIDS and HIV in the united states?
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351,518 people were living with AIDS in the US at the end of 2000 ... 79.4% of them were men and 76.8% of them were 35-64 years old (20.1% are 20-34) \n\n800,000-900,000 US residents are estimated to be living with HIV infection ... and 1/3 of them don't know they are infected ...
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AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. Gathering the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals, this volume focuses on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, presenting culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women.
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The time between you cntact the HIV Infection and the developemnt of Aids varies between individuals. About 50% develop Aids within 10 years of infection but may be still more years.   You are infected but the symptoms develop after many years. By the time you will be infecting the people. Progression of the disease is affected by age at HIV infection, mode of transmission and genetic factors.
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The reason for the spread of HIV, where ever a person might live, is pretty much the people's own actions.  With the info we have now, barring blood transfusions (and even then rare since blood is tested) and freaky things like a maniac poking someone with an infected needle, the disease is almost 100% preventable. It is quite simple.  Don't hop into bed with everyone you see.  Don't do intravenous drugs.  How hard is that?
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I believe AIDS is a condition in which HIV has weakened your immune system enough to lower your white blood cell count below a certain amount.  Below that amount your body is incredibly susceptible to illness and disease.  Some patients never reach that point.  Magic Johnson, for example, the professional basketball player with HIV and the worst talk show know to man has been living with HIV for some time now.  He has faught it of so well that his recent tests show that the HIV virus is no longer detectable.
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African American communities are being ravaged and attacked by an epidemic of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). At issue is our lifestyle. Although a number of AIDS cases can be attributed to Injection Drug Use (IDU), too many of us – whether gay, straight, male or female – continue to have unprotected sex with multiple partners or people we barely know.\n\nThe AIDS rate among Black women is three times as high as that among Latino women and 18 times as high as that among White women. Today Black women make up more than half of all women who have died of AIDS.\n\nAfrican Americans make up 13 percent of the population, yet we now account for 41 percent of all AIDS cases in the United States. The Harvard AIDS Institute estimates that in the year 2000 more than half of all our country’s AIDS cases will be within the African American community.
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Aids is such a broad subject. You probably need to condense it to a subject within Aids for example how about the effects  physically,socially,psychology on HIV infected children
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AIDS is no longer a gay disease. Trust westerners to be so incredibly insular in their understanding. More heterosexual people have AIDS on a global scale. It affects everyone and not just 'sexually immoral' people.
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AIDS is a really serious problem.  People should definately worry about it more because it changes your life.  I think people who have AIDS should be honest with their parteners (because most aren't) and warn them.  AIDS is an auto immune disease.  You get sick easily, and it will most likely result in a premature death.
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You're right...The movie Forrest Gump did have AIDS in it--"Jenny", his love, got AIDS from her alternative lifestyle (unprotected sex, intervenous drug use). They don't say "AIDS" in the movie, but she describes the symptoms and the lack of any treatment, which is what AIDS treatments started with back in in the early '80s. Obviously there is no cure--yet. Many people, including some in the government, thought that AIDS was an affliction of the Gay Community and drug users and wasn't important for "normal," heterosexual people, that is, until the heterosexual community started developing the disease as well. Children developed AIDS from being born to HIV positive mothers who got the disease from their unfaithful husbands, young people contracted it from their dentists, etc. It is a horrible disease and brought a real halt to promiscuous behavior that had predominated in the 1960s and 1970s. There was quite a stigma about AIDS for many years and there was a real fear about "catching" it from casual contact with people. Television tried to deal with this with television movies, sitcoms, news broadcasts, 60 Minutes program...the list goes on and on. Mainstream movies about AIDS continue this tradition. When Liz Taylor comforted her gay friend, Rock Hudson, who was a dying of the diesase in 1985, I know many were shocked that she would put herself in such danger (she's still alive, as far as I know, 20+ years later). "Magic" Johnson, the basketball player, came out with the news he was HIV-positive and the media had a field-day with it--other BB players were concerned that he might have infected them by sweating on them. Princess Diana was quite instrumental in getting the issue of compassionate care of AIDS victims to the forefront. She too defied "common sense" and comforted AIDS patients by holding their hands and stroking their hair, etc. These images were broadcast worldwide. I remember as a teenager then thinking that she must be very brave. In effect, she was much more informed than the rest of us. My 2nd cousin died of AIDS. Hope I've helped...Good luck with your assignment!
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AIDS IS ABOUT ATTACKING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND LIFE...LEAVING U DESTITUTE AND UNLOVED...THE MOST HORRIBLE DISEASE IN THE WORLD
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Canada recorded its first case of AIDS in 1982. Health Canada estimates there have since been about 50,000 cases of HIV infection (up from 40,000 cases in 1996) and 20,000 cases of AIDS. \n\nTo date, over 50 million people have been infected with HIV \nAt least 18 million people have died from AIDS \nIn some countries, particularly those in Southern Africa, between 20 and 30 per cent of adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV 16,000 people become infected with HIV every day. \nOne million babies were born infected with HIV last year \nThirteen million children have been orphaned as a result of AIDS. \nIn 10 years the UN estimates that figure will rise to 40 million children.
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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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AIDS is contributing to the underdevelopment of the entire African continent.  There is no good reason for the US to withdrawl funding to fight it.  It is morally reprehensible to ignore the problem and from a more pragmatic view the problems in Africa will hurt America in the long run.  Disease has destabilized much of Africa and led to wars, racial tension, and genocide.  This is a world problem, not just Africa's.
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acronym AIDS or Aids), is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific "damage to the immune system" caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).\n\nTherefore, it damages the immune system of the affected person thereby making him/her prone to opportunistic infections and tumors.
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AIDS is everywhere, even China, a very closed society.\n\nIn Africa you have so many other problems with poverty and lack of education, superstitions and denial.  \n\nPeople in America are in denial, too.  They think it "can't happen to me".  But it can.
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You can find a complete answer to your question at:\n\nwww.aids.about.com