AIDS is caused by the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which damages the body’s defense system. People infected with HIV usually live for years without any signs of the disease. They may look and feel healthy, but they can still pass on the virus to others. HIV is a retrovirus with two primary types: HIV-1 and [...]
India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million Indians are currently living with HIV. HIV emerged later in India than it did in many other countries. Infection rates soared throughout the 1990s, and today the [...]
HIV/AIDS THE PARADOX OF THE MIND A lot has been said and done to save the human race from the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Media campaigns targeting behavior change, have so far not managed to take way commercial sex workers or so called prostitutes from the streets of cities across the globe. Neither have [...]