Aids: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome :: essays research papers

back up Aquired insubordinate Deficiency Syndrome     I am doing a report on AIDS, I dont know much closely AIDS but I exittell you what I know. I know that it is transmitted by versedcontact,blood,needles,children during/before birth. I also know it affects theimmune system directly, It is cause by the virus human immunodeficiency virus which they have no curefor either AIDS or HIV at the current moment, but they ar doing realresearch on them.     I c entirely it the "Generation X unsoundness" because it mostly affects my switch on-oriented generation. It is currently one of the leading causes of death in theUSA and the death rate is increasing drastically It it the perfect virus of theninties because of how it is transmitted is give care what the ninties is ab away...sex and drugs(what a great generation huh).Everyones doing drugs and having pre-marital sex at a young irresponsableage, its getting so bad I am beginning to believe that I am the alone median(prenominal)person left.     You used to only be able to get an HIV test at your doctor, but now theyhave home tests that are confidential. You go to the store pick one up prickyour digit then mail in the blood sample, in about deuce or three weeks you callin and enter your special spliff number and they give you your results. I thinkthis is cool but in that respect has to be some drawbacks like them getting samples messedup and it getting mingled up in the mail or other stupid things like that, like ifyou really dont have the disease but you get person elses reading who doeshave HIV.     Thats about all I know about this horrible disease,so ill move on towhat I found when I reaserched this topic. I went on the internet to find someof my information, and i used different books the librarian recommended me toread on AIDS and HIV.     AIDS appears to be constantly changing its genetic s tructure so it take outs it very herculean to find a cure for it, and very hard for the body to makeantibodies. This makes development of a vaccine that is able to raise protectiveantibodies to all virus strands a difficult task. I also found out that theyhave made so much progress in determination a cure because they know so much about itnow.     The only known chemical that is effective in reducing reactions/symptoms,is the chemical zidovudine which was formerly called azidothymidine(AZT). Whichwas developed in 1987. It is indicated thet few if any are likely to survive the