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An International Perspective of AIDS

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for instance wiped out nearly twenty five million people, and during the early part of the 19th century, we had smallpox. Now, mankind is faced with yet another killer: AIDS.  This disease is no respecter of boundaries, nationalities, gender or age, and as such impacts international relations on a large scale. In the early eighties, two French scientists successfully  identified an, as of yet unheard of virus. This virus, called HIV, attacked the bodys immune system and caused a lowered resistance to other types of diseases, and gave rise  to Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome. But identifying the disease and curing it are two different things. The good news is that significant strides have been made in the area of  research and now through the use of combinations of drugs, those infected with HIV may not develop full blown AIDS. HIV is transmitted via a fluid solution, usually saliva, semen,  vaginal fluids, breast milk or blood(Stine, 2001). The main ways that this can occur is via sharing needles, sexual contact, blood transfusions, transplants or getting infected fluid into an open  wound, states Dr. Gerald Stine in his book, AIDS Update 2002. To date, the most popular form of treatment is a combination of anti-AIDS drugs, including AZT. As to  the question of where this virus originated and how it was first transmitted, there are a myriad of theories. Through the cooperation of multi-national agencies one of the most promising  hypothesis states that the first known case of HIV was identified in a Bantu native in South America, where the main diet consists of monkey. Subsequent testing of these  monkeys showed that they are carriers of the HIV virus, or one very nearly like it. Nonetheless, the fact is that AIDS and HIV is here, it is killing people