Patients with Aids

Patients With Aids

Throughout the history of time diseases have crept upon humanity in order to make us ill and in some causes wipeout a large portion of the population. These diseases became important for humanity to observe, understand, and cure. One of the most deadly diseases of our world today is AIDS. AIDS is the disease that is contracted after the virus known as HIV has run its toll on the human body. As a biological killer throughout the world, AIDS has become an urgent concern to agencies and governments worldwide. AIDS was a popular and serious epidemic in the early 1980's and 90's. In response, there are several international organizations that have been established to comprehend more about preventing, tracking, and curing the disease.

The AIDS virus was first discovered back in 1981, back then it was known as "gay cancer" spreading throughout homosexual relations. The black population has the highest rate of the AIDS epidemic in the nation at 47%, white American is at 27%, and Hispanic/ Latinos at 21%. The number one cause is having sexual relations with an infected person. AIDS can also be contracted by sharing needles. Back in 1981 AIDS was spread through blood transmissions that were given by infected people, before specialist even knew it could be spread that way.

The relationship between health care and globalization is becoming more defined as issues such as the AIDS epidemic. Problems that are related to the aids epidemic are malnutrition, unsanitary conditions, and the lack of medical treatment in developing countries. The lack of treatments and trained health care specialists is making medical treatment more expensive all over the world. People around the world may feel hopeless and desperate for medical attention. Especially, in low income parts of the world where unsanitary lifestyles allow simple curing illness in America to progress into its deadliest stage. Also, people is these areas are uneducated on the prevention of AIDS, therefore cause the number of infected people to rise.

Historically, people living with HIV/AIDS have had a difficult time obtaining private health insurance and are vulnerable to insurance industry abuse. People with HIV/AIDS also face challenges with obtaining care from health care providers. The President's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Affordable Care Act makes considerable approaches in addressing these concerns and promoting equality for people living with HIV/AIDS. This strategy plans on reducing new infections, reducing HIV transmission rate, and increase the number of people living with HIV/AIDS. (1)

The challenge with AIDS is the complexity of the disease makes it harder for specialists to understand and cure AIDS. Therefore, putting hours in at the lab and conducting their research is increasing the health care budget rapidly. There are several medications a patient can intake on a daily basis in order to maintain life. However, these medications can vary in cost and state to anywhere from 1,500-5,000 dollars a month. The amount of money these medications cost monthly for the average person can cause a lot of stress on the patient and their family. They may have to make several

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