People with HIV/AIDS

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A look at the disease itself and how people suffering from this syndrome function in a normal environment and lifestyle. Care givers and institutions available to them are examined. The paper presents a discussion about what special care or needs these people require or deserve.

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"The human race has been aware of the existence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, since the early 1980's. The virus weakens and eventually eliminates the body's ability to resist infections, fungi, and disease. At this stage of the viral infection, a person is diagnosed as having Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. By the end of 1995, the Centers for Disease Control had cataloged 500,000 people that had been diagnosed as having AIDS, since 1981. Over 300,000 of these people have died (Nord, 1996). In 1996 the World Health Organization estimated that over 22 million people worldwide have HIV/AIDS (Encarta, 98)."

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