SOC309Y1 Lecture : Lecture #2 - Sept 23.docx
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Soc309y1 lecture #2 - september 23, 2011. Adinne schwartz, ma- toronto public health- aschwar@toronto. ca (sexual health. Promoter) talk shop, hiv testing, teaches hiv101 do not need to be a medical doctor to understand transmission of the disease. H human because this virus can only infect human beings. I immuno-deficiency because the effect of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work properly, within the body"s immune system. V virus because this organism is a virus, it cannot reproduce by itself. It reproduces by taking over the machinery of the human cell. Hiv affects the immune system thus when one gets a cold, immune system not working well, person will be affected even more . A person who is hiv positive (hiv+) has had a blood test and found out that they have hiv in their body. A person who is hiv negative (hiv-) has had a blood test that has not found hiv in their blood.
