AIDs is a disease that is killing millions of people each year, a large portion of these are children. The definition of AIDs according to WorldIQ.com is "AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a human diseaseimmune system. It is widely accepted that AIDS results from infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), although this hypothesis is not without controversy. AIDS is currently considered incurable; where treatments are unavailable (mostly in poorer countries) most sufferers die within a few years of infection. In developed countries, treatment has improved greatly over the past decade, and people have lived with AIDS for ten to twenty years." characterized by progressive destruction of the body's
AIDs is an epidemic that is sweeping the world. With it killing 2 million people in 2008 and 25 million people have died since 1981 according to Avert, Averting HIV and AIDs. "In developing and transitional countries, 9.5 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 4 million (42%) are receiving the drugs"
That means that less than half of the people needing the drug to survive are not receiving it. According to Water.org "884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people and 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease." This means that a third of the percent of people living without the life saving pill they need also are living with clean water. Something must be done. Luckily things are being done and changes are being made to help those who are infected with AIDs.
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Mrs. Wright,
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I went to EasyBib.com but they were asking for an article author and a lot of things that the websites didnt list them. Or the electronically published date, which I couldn't find either. So here is a list of the websites that I quoted and used:
http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/AIDS
dude this is depressing lol. but im enjoying reading the facts about it. is there some kind of program that helps get aids drugs to third world countries???? cuz there definitley needs to be. How exactly can Aids and HIV get transfered through water??
ReplyDeletehmm, I need to change the color of my comments so they're not so hard to read....
ReplyDeleteYes there are programs I'm sure, I havent done a lot of research into what to do about it yet. Hopefully Mrs. Wright will tell us eventually :P
No it doesnt pass through the water. People can only become infected with AIDs from Sexual contact or blood. Nothing with saliva, sweat, germs...ect...
So sex, kneedles and being born with it are the only ways really. Also babies can get it through nursing if their mother has it.
The issues with the food and water is that AIDs isn't what kills you. AIDs weakens the immune system. So the bacteria and diseases in the dirty water kills people who have AIDs because their body can't fight it off like ours do.
So if they have dirty water they're way more likely to die from disease than those who have AIDs but have clean, fresh food and water.
Hope I answered your questions! :)