AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES

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Aids in the United States

Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome also known as AIDS is a widespread disease whose origins remain unbeknownst to man even in this generation of ultimate medical innovation and discovery . In the United States it was said to have begun with a report of homosexual men from New York Los Angeles , and San Francisco with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP and Kaposi 's Sarcoma , which were rare for young adults . The cases that came after had another set of homosexual men as subjects . As

such , the disease was named GRIDS , which stands for Gay-Related Immunodeficiency syndrome . As time passed by , however , a new case was acquired which involved infants . From this it was found that the illness did not merely targeted homosexual men but also children and everyone else . From other reports which were found later , it was indicated that some patients acquired the disease from sharing needles and after blood transfusions With this , it was concluded that the disease was blood borne , and may be transmitted through exchange of fluids . In 1982 , the original name GRIDS was changed to AIDS "HIV /AIDS in TEXAS

Today , the disease remains rampant and at some parts of the country it is even considered an epidemic . In the state of Texas , there is an estimated sixty thousand people who has the disease . More than ninety-three percent of this is adults . This is a disturbing number as such the government started to find ways in to prevent the...