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Allowed To Play Hiv Infected
1,136 wordsRecently there have been more and more cases of professional athletes coming forward to the public announcing their infection with human immunodeficiency disease (HIV) (Cooper et al. 1). When the first few cases were brought to the publics attention, some athletes were not very willing to play on the same court or field, though; as new information became available about HIV their opinions began to change. For example, when Earvin Magic Johnson informed the public that he was infected with the vi...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hiv Infected Women
1,791 wordsAids and Society The number of newborns infected by vertical transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus is increasing as the prevalence of HIV-positive women increase within the United States. It is estimated that while seven thousand HIV-positive women become pregnant each year, between one thousand and two thousand of their newborns will be HIV-positive. This research paper will concentrate on the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from mother to child, the benefits of drug...
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Reverse Transcriptase Aids Virus
1,574 wordsThe AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases in the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the United States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare pneumonia caused by an organism called Penumocystis casino. These patients then went on to develop many other new and rare complications that had previously been seen only in patients with severely damaged immune systems. The Center for Disease Control in the United State...
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Health Care Professionals Health Care Workers
976 wordsHealth Disclosure Laws Disclosure Laws Health care professionals carrying the AIDS virus should inform all patients they come into contact with of their disease and the possible risk factors that it may pose. In this paper I will discuss the need for disclosure laws, consider and analyze some possible objections against disclosure laws, and finally conclude that our society should adopt these laws. The main argument for disclosure when considering health care professionals relates to the idea th...
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Hiv Infected Women American Medical Association
1,148 wordsPrevention of HIV Transmittance to Babies Last year, it was cause for celebration. The cause of celebration was for the results that several clinical trials of zidovudine cut the risk for mother to child transmission of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds. Although, this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations that all pregnant women should receive HIV testing and counseling. But, these findings have been cause of protests by several activist groups. Activists fear th...
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