POLS 3710 Lecture Notes - Body Fluid, 6 Years, Sexually Transmitted Infection
4 Nov 2013
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With no drugs, nearly 100% death rate. Lack of diagnosis therefore lack of treatment. People started to get together, public media, voicing concerns. Educated the people so they understood the process of departments and the disease itself. 1988 almost 1,000,000 deaths world wide. Activists proposed a health plan to the government. Achieved goal of gaining more affordable and better drugs to treat. 1991 over 2 million dead, 40 million infected. Drugs that were previously approved proven ineffective. Combined 3 drugs and deaths stopped/slowed down significantly. Virus that cases a disease that affects the immune system. Transmission direct contact with nucleus membrane in blood stream. Now considered an epidemic because of scope. Bodily fluid containing blood, semen, breast milk. The cocktails of drugs accelerated by act up. When you have hiv (before aids) they evaluate how infected you are adjust medication to this. Why study aids? the sexual politics of the disease. Affects mostly men who have sex with men.
