Aids

Bruno Andre
Academic Writing II
10 October, 2012
AIDS
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are the most common infections along the entire world. People normally acquire diseases by little lack of knowledge. Most of diseases are more common in third world countries because of the poor conditions of life that they offer to their population. Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a STDs that normally occurs among teenagers and young adults. AIDS is a huge epidemic disease should to be avoided, therefore it is important to understand the causes, symptoms, and treatments of it. For our better understanding of the AIDS virus it’s necessary to know the origin of the disease. AIDS is the last stage of HIV infection, when the person´s immune system has difficulties to fight diseases and certain cancers because of the damage caused by the virus (CDC, 2012). It was found a type of chimpanzee in Africa said by the scientists as the source of the HIV infection. They believed that the HIV virus was transmitted by the chimpanzees to human, when they had contact during hunting activities, where they came to have the chimpanzee as a meat which made them have contact with the animal´s blood (CDC, 2012). In other words, the HIV virus came from West Africa slowly spreading over decades to the rest of the world.
First, it is important to know what the causes of AIDS are. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the name of the virus that causes AIDS. Although, it is not totally understood if HIV is really the virus that cause AIDs as described by the Center for Disease Control & Protection (CDC). On the other hand, “The conclusion after more than 28 years of scientific research is that people, if exposed to HIV through sexual contact or injecting drug use for example, may become infected with HIV. If they become infected, most will eventually develop AIDS.”(CDC, 2012). HIV might not be the mainly virus that cause AIDS, but it certainly plays an important hole over this