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Comparison of HIV/AIDS Affecting Sex Worker sin USA and South Africa

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Comparison of HIV/AIDS Affecting Sex Worker sin USA and South Africa

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Introduction:Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has become one of the most deadly and life takingdiseases of the twenty first century. According to recent UN report approximately 22 millionpeople have already dies globally and another 40 million people are currently is sufferingfrom HIV (United Nations, 2017). These illnesses have spread on a much rapid phase, as wellaccompanied by poor health, death, poverty and misery along with it. The African continentis one of the most badly affected countries that have been affected by the epidemic of HIV,although it is still in its earlier stages in other parts of the world. The HIV epidemic is notonly the reason of death of millions but also affecting their families, communities andeconomies by imposing heavy burdens. Even the wretchedness and damage of HIV hasalready been felt in large but according to United Nations, the coming generations will haveto face the worst effect of this disease. HIV is a retrovirus which causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is ahuman disease where an individual’s body defence or immunity system slowly fails as aresult contaminated by severe infections and other diseases. One of the most common notedfrom of getting infected by AIDS viruses are transmission through unprotected sex with anindividual who is infected by the HIV viruses. This can happen in both heterosexual as wellas homosexual unprotected sexual intercourse. Other possible human behaviours which cantransmit HIV AIDS viruses are breast feeding to new born whose mothers are alreadyinfected by the virus, using used needles and razors by HIV patients, and HIV contaminatedmothers pass on the virus to the newborn during birth. Although till date there has been nocure for HIV AIDS, there are some treatments that needs lifelong utilization of a blend ofanti-retroviral drugs and a cocktail of other drugs to deal with any other probable infections.
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