Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hiv, Humoral Immunity, Drug Injection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Lecture 8: hiv and aids- biology and psychosocial prevention. Part 1: a brief history of aids and hiv. First (cid:272)ases of (cid:862)u(cid:374)usual(cid:863) s(cid:455)(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e (cid:271)ega(cid:374) appeari(cid:374)g i(cid:374) se(cid:448)eral differe(cid:374)t (cid:272)ities. The syndrome was unusual because it was characterized by rare diseases (ex. All involved a suppression of the immune system. Syndrome is named: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) All 50 cases had 2 things in common: gay men, used drug (amyl nitrate) to enhance sex; Epide(cid:373)iologists (cid:271)ega(cid:374) to suspe(cid:272)t that aid (cid:449)as (cid:272)aused (cid:271)(cid:455) a (cid:858)(cid:272)he(cid:373)i(cid:272)al age(cid:374)t(cid:859) (cid:894)the drug that they used) This hypothesis was ruled out because many gay men who used to drug did not show any signs of aids. Found that all men who had aids had had sex with this man. Either direct sex with him or they had sex with someone who had previously had sex with him. 40 aids patients directly linked to him: he had kaposi(cid:859)s sar(cid:272)o(cid:373)a.