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Dan Dougherty and Allie Capetola
Period 5
 Human immunodeficiency virus
 Leads to AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)
 HIV is spread through sexual contact, or from a parent that has the disease
 HIV attacks the immune system making it weaker and susceptible to other diseases
 Currently no effective cure
 Only way to know if you have the virus is to be tested by a doctor
 AIDS final stage of HIV infection
 Not everyone will get to this stage
 Without treatment, patients typically survive for 3 years
 In 2013, about 24.7 million people were living with HIV
 In 2014, 2million people and of them, 220,000 new HIV children (<15 years of age)
were "diagnosed"
 Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for nearly 70% of the global total of new infections
 Countries hit hardest with the HIV epidemic are usually low-to-middle income and
is at risk of other infectious diseases, and food shortage.
 (June 2014- June 2015), 2.2 million people have been able to access treatment
 Nigeria- 3.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS
 South Africa- 6.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS
 Kenya- 1.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS
 Breast feeding
 Ceremonies
 Traditional Healers and Medical Doctors
 Political instability is contributing to the failure to create a helpful HIV/AIDS
monitoring group
 Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Kenya
 Botswana
 Woman discrimination- men dominate the sexual relationships, causing women to
practice unsafe sex
 Condom use and distribution
 (Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, and Uganda)
 Mother to child transmission prevention
 Voluntary male circumcision
 Antiretroviral Treatment (ART)
 2012- 68% of people had access to ACT treatment
 2013 World Health Organization changed the guidelines
 ART is low especially for children