1) Introduction AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. There is no cure or vaccine, but, antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and increase the life expectancy, however these medications are very expensive and may be associated with many side effects.
Research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the early twentieth century, it was a monkey virus; hunters ate the animal and took the virus. According to researches, since its discovery, AIDS has caused nearly 30 million deaths. AIDS have a huge impact in the modern society, discrimination is the biggest one, many people still have low or none information about AIDS, that is why many have prejudice with HIV-positive. 2) Argument 1-HIV vaccine is unnecessary.
According to studies and tests, the vaccine created to prevent the HIV can change the AIDS test for positive, so people how does not have AIDS; in the test can be an HIV positive. In that way many consequences could happen in the person life, such as a lot of prejudice, you may be denied residence in other countries and many others. Other point is that our body already have an immune system that can combat the HIV, Our immune system creates, antibodies, within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system complete Dr. Luc Montagnier. Also this vaccine can cause other diseases like cancer.
So why this vaccine was created, the answer is easy, money, it is just a strategy of big drug industries to increase their profit. 3) Argument 2-Nutritional AIDS Treatments Are Effective AIDS is characterized by progressive depletion of a specific group of immune cells called (CD4+), unfortunately there is not any medicament that can cure the HIV/AIDS, the only treatment that we have and really works just down the HIV level in the patient blood, it is a very expensive program, that is why just a few people have access to this treatment.
An alternative treatment is the micronutrients that can control the AIDS, Micronutrients are Vitamins and Minerals that help the operation of the immune system; the lack of this nutrient is present in all over the world, in a recent document that about 2 billion people worldwide suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Also, scientist had discovered that some nutrients that can block the reproduction of the HIV virus, it is a specific micronutrients that can block virus multiplication or expression at different stages of infection. 4) Argument 3-AIDS education.
AIDS education is a program that ends with steroids about this disease, strip doubt and teach about it, By encouraging openness and dialogue, to reduce stigmatization and discrimination. As the interviews revealed, can educate, entertain and provoke interest. Simultaneously initiate discussion about the dangers of the disease, which may lead to behavioral change, while also giving hope by reducing stigmatization of those living with HIV/ AIDS. AIDS education are so important that studies show that the number of AIDS positive could decrease if a good education about it be applied.
This kind of education change the mind of people, After adult learners engage in this process, they move through a continual course of reflection, emotion, and potential action until change is enacted and embodied holistically, in every sense of that individual’s being. Because of the lack of information, many people have a wrong idea about AIDS, for example many people thing that AIDS it is an exclusive gay disease, with a nice education this prejudice can over.
The education about AIDS is good to prevent the disease but also good for people who already have the disease, they can teach what they should do, how, where and when; many information that they just can have with who really know about AIDS could be find in this places where they have information about the AIDS. 5) Argument 4-Children with AIDS/HIV The number of children with AIDS in unbelievable, huge, more than 1,000 children are newly around the world, and the number is being bigger and bigger, around 30 children die per hours as a result of AIDS.
Infected with HIV every day, at the end of 2010, there were 3. 4 million children living with HIV. Children can get the AIDS at the same way as adults, but nine out of ten children infected with the AIDS virus were infected through their mother during the pregnancy, that treatment that can prevent that is very expensive and rare, principally in poor areas, such as Africa, the place where this treatment is more necessary, In 2010 for example, only around half of HIV-infected pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries received drugs to protect their babies from infection.
The treatment is simple, the mother must use antiretroviral drugs before birth and during labor, these treatments can almost the risk of transmission from mother-to-child.
The diagnosis to see if the children are HIV positive must be as soon as possible to arrange the treatment, however, the HIV test for adults does not work in children younger 18 months, and the test for these kids is more complicate and expensive than the adult one, the lack of this tests are a big problem in the combat of AIDS, among 65 reporting countries, it was found that only an estimated 28 percent of children born to HIV-positive mothers received an HIV test within the first two months of life.
The treatment for children slows the progress of HIV infection and allows infected children to live much longer drugs used is expensive, many people use the adults drugs in kids, and that can have really bad consequences in the children life. The treatment become more and more expensive due the body creates drug resistance and needs to begin a second course of drugs, and that one is more expensive than the drug applied before. Just a few families have the access to these drugs. 6) Argument 5-HIV prevention around the world.
In the USA The number of orgs is very positive, mainly for the prevention in gay men , many orgs help homosexuals with AIDS, giving him education and support, also they help gay men to prevent the AIDS, how to practice safer sex, with special classes about it, but the number started rising again, that happen because of the new drugs and treatment, people start to don’t care as before, because they think that if their get AIDS, it is just take a pill, but it is not so simple as they think, the treatment is expensive and just slows the progress of HIV infection.
Africa is the continent that are most affected by the AIDS, however Uganda have the best prevention program against AIDS and most experts believe this was largely because of concerted efforts to encourage safer sexual behavior, the use of condoms,” HIV prevalence among adults fell from around 15% in the early 1990s to about 7% in 2001″(Dhingra).
Unfortunately that is not in all Africa, In many countries in Africa, such as Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, continue to harbor extremely severe, They already tried programs, the media but nothing works, poor quality test kits, unreliable supplies of equipment, and lack of trained staff helps make this countries the worse in the AIDS combat, one of the biggest problem is that many kids born with AIDS.
Brazil is seen as having one of the developing world’s best records of HIV prevention, many organizations with the government help make campaigns to prevent the AIDS a hard to combat homophobia and stigma related to HIV, both using the media.
In Thailand the biggest AIDS problem in Thailand is the sex-workers, many men go to brothels and massage parlours to have sex, and many times the sex-worker is positive AIDS, passing the disease for the man who paid for sex, The government with intent to decrease the number of people with AIDS distributed tens of millions of free condoms for sex workers, also a campaign for discourage men to visit sex workers was made. Europe as US have a low number of AIDS positive, some countries in the east side still have a big number of infected people, mostly by the use of drugs.
Cuba have a good program but very restrict, where people if are AIDS positive, must be quarantined indefinitely in sanatoriums. In China mostly of the infections are in the middle, , because many people became infected during the 1990s when they sold their blood to commercial agencies. In Russia the biggest problem is the use of drugs, almost all the AIDS positive got it during the use of drugs. Russia has Many Foreign donors have helped to support programmes and needle exchanges in some regions.
7) Argument 6-Time to up HIV testing in U. S. youth ages 13-24. | | Young people between ages 13-24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year, and 60% of youth living with HIV are unaware they are infected, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only just a little part of teens have received any kind of HIV test, about 13% of high school students, and 35% of those ages 18-24, have ever been tested for HIV, the new report reveals.
The number of tests applied is so small because teens and young adults are in almost all cases healthy that is why they go very often to doctors, without a doctor they cannot know that they are suspect of the HIV virus, and consequently do the test. The most affected in America are the gays, bisexuals they represent 72% of infected in US. By race/ethnicity, 57% of estimated new infections in this age group occurred in African-Americans. 8) Argumente7- AIDS and the heart.
AIDS/HIV can affect the heart indirectly with many ways; one is the Myocarditis, an inflammation in the heart muscle that can bring several problems to the heart. Several viruses common in people who have AIDS can cause myocarditis. Other one is the Pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac around the heart that with AIDS the chance to have these inflammations is bigger. Also there is the Endocarditis, a disease that is provided mostly of times by the HIV virus, Endocarditis is an infection in the layer of tissue that lines inside the heart muscle and valves.
Some AIDS positive are more likely to get Cancer, who can affect the heart. The best way to diagnose using the echocardiogram that takes pictures of the heart. 9) Argument 8- The Media Exaggerate the Risks of Infectious Diseases The media create a story that doesn’t exist; they have a really dramatic about AIDS, AIDS is a very bad disease, but the media use too much drama in their articles, making the AIDS looks worse, the problem with stories like this is they provide little new information, while exacerbating fear through the imagery used.
Other thing that happens is the fact that they distort the fact, for worse; they change the fact for something worse, to impress the readers. In many magazines and newspaper the crew is inexperient, they know just how to write, but don’t know about the fact that they are writing, for example many writers don’t know anything about AIDS, about medicine, so they don’t really know what they are talking about, There is no prerequisite for a health reporter to have a background in medicine, or even science in general.
One solution is the education, teach the journalists how to write an article about AIDS, or any kind of disease; Journalists probably are the most able to efficiently disseminate pertinent information on a global scale and must do so in languages that are understood by the general public. Other point that we can do is combat the fake information’s, the responsible news media should combat this by being, above all else, the source of accurate and clear information. 10) Conclusion.
The best way to over with the AIDS is with information, people can learn about AIDS/HIV, and know how to prevent, what to do if is an AIDS positive, the good and bad points about the new medicaments, they can have everything that they can find today in places where AIDS education is applied. Other point is the help of the other, organizations and the most important, the help of the government, the most powerful and responsible for the end of the AIDS. Scientists should try create a new medicament that really works, not just for the money, but for the good of the world population, in this way AIDS can be prevent, avoiding new diseases.