History Of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - 1272 Words

The history of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the United States starts in 1981, the year it became recognized by country as an official new strange disease. By 1982 it was recognized as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It started in San Francisco, with five young homosexual men, they were presented with Pneumonia (PCP). As the year went on there were more reports of homosexual men presenting PCP and some of them were diagnosed with PCP and Kaposi ´s Sarcoma (KS). Others reports from drug injection users follow the same syndromes. All of these individuals shared a profound immunodeficiency, the hallmark of which was a depletion of CD4-positive, or T-helper, lymphocytes (Osmond, 2003). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)†¦show more content†¦The first death on HIV reported, was in 1985. By 1987, regulations were issued, AIDS was added to the official South Africa list of communicable disease. The spread of HIV in South Africa is best described as explosi ve because of the rapid rise in HIV prevalence (Karim Karim, 2002). HIV kept spreading around homosexuals, it came to a point where also women, infants and people that got blood transfusions were infected with it. At this point it became a red light for the government. In 1994, with Nelson Mandela as a president HIV/AIDS got attention, but it wasn t the attention it needed. In 2009 with President Jacob Zuma, there was another big change that transformed the health police, bringing more attention to it, looking for a better health care and control of the disease. Compare United States United States has a goal in mind regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) infection, to become a country free HIV/AIDS, make it a rare disease and if someone gets it, the person will receive a high quality healthcare and no discrimination for the disease nor the person ´s economy, ethics, sexual orientation, etc. In 2010 it was established the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. With President Obama in charged, the government committed to reach three main goals regarding the HIV/AIDS strategy plan; reduce the number of people