Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Viral Load, Opportunistic Infection, Gay Liberation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

In the early 80"s it was understood to be a lethal disease. Progression from hiv infection to immune system compromise. Fear of aids was an independent focus to make people relatively tactical about aids. Fischer - doctors are more dangerous to patients than patients are to doctors lets test all doctors before we expose them to patients. Hiv can occur because blood supply is not screened from blood transfusions, untested factor concentrate (doesn"t happen anymore because it"s made synthetically) 1984 hiv discovered, within 2 years there were hiv tests. Must engage in some sort of penetrative activity that exposes you to the bloodstream of another person to be infected. Most of the hiv/aids was occurring within the gay communities and then among the drug users (needles) At least a quarter of the heterosexual cases of hiv in canada is women. Most other places its 1:1 ratio of men and women.