HIV

Running Head : ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF HIV

Explain when and where HIV originated and how it is spread . What steps must be taken to reduce the spread of HIV

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Origin of HIV

There have been many theories as to the origin of HIV and they continue to be floated since there has been no concrete proof as to where and when it started

Oral Polio Vaccine Theory is one of the theories stating that HIV was transferred to

people in Africa through the oral polio vaccine called Chat . This theory could however not be scientifically proven as the vaccine was grown from cells of the macaque monkeys which can not be infected with SIV or HIV . It 's also argued the virus existed before the polio vaccine (Jamie Robertson , 2008

The other common theory is the conspiracy theory terming HIV as a man made disease that was designed to wipe out large numbers of African Americans and Homosexuals by the US Federal Special Cancer Virus Program and was spread through the small pox and Hepatitis B vaccines (Jamie Robertson , 2008

The most common is the hunter theory which explains that the virus was transferred from chimps infected with the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV ) to humans either through ingestion of infected meat or getting infected blood of the chimps in their own systems According to the BBC health segment (2006 , researchers traced the origin of HIV to wild chimpanzees living in the...