The Destructive Impact of HIV/AIDS

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This paper discusses the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome known as (HIV/AIDS) which has become a global pandemic. The focus of this paper is to empirically examine the current crisis and determine how and where the disease will establish itself in future populations. It also examines the problems that manifest from the epidemic, causing economic problems and high rates of orphaned children. The author provides information from several studies that have been carried out in recent years as well as a table displaying the number of deaths from AIDS annually.

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"The human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a global pandemic with significant numbers spanning all regions of the world. Its short-term epidemiological and behavioral effects are of vital concern and threaten to disrupt population structures and devastate the economic climate of developing territories like Sub-Saharan Africa and South/South East Asia. The importance is now well known regarding the role of population structures and the current relationships between HIV/AIDS and the mortality risks which govern them. Long term projections regarding the direct and indirect population impacts of HIV/AIDS play a large role in national policy, straddling all sectors of society. The foremost problem posed by HIV/AIDS is that "there is virtually no similar retrovirus infection to humans which has been adequately studied to provide an analogy for predictions" (Chin, Lwanga, and Mann, 1988). This raises issues in determining patterns of behavior for those pre/post infection, or perhaps more importantly the unknown degree of variability regarding individual infectiousness, and other co-factors dealing with transmission or progression from HIV to AIDS. The focus of this paper is to empirically examine the current crisis of HIV/AIDS and determine how and where the disease will establish itself in future populations, especially those located in South and South East Asia."

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