NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Drug Injection, Haemophilia A
21 Apr 2016
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Tracing sexual contacts of one aids patient: *picture, a lot were already infected. Epidemiology of a new disease: not just in the gay community: other ways of getting similar syndrome o. Improper techniques of washing syringes after use: blood transfusions o. Couldn"t detect or didn"t even know the virus causing aids o. Many people infected: hemophilia a (coagulation factor viii) which affects boys, female sex partners of aids-positive, iv drug users and hemophiliacs, new name by the cbc: acquired. Measuring disease frequency: incidence - new cases, ex. Hiv infections in 2013 was 2. 1 million: aids death in 2013 was 1. 5 million, hiv infection in. 2010 2. 7 million: aids death in 2010. 1. 8: therefore we are doing better, prevalence - People living with hiv in 2013 was 35 million: incidence rate, rate at which new cases occur in a population during a specified time period (e. g. per 100.
