To what extent can HIV/AIDS be classified as an individual responsibility (private trouble) and societal/global responsibility (public issue)

Running Head : HIV /AIDS

HIV /AIDS : Whose Responsibility Is It

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Because of the growing concern towards AIDS , there is then a need for more research about the dreaded disease and this study is a tool to increase awareness among people . This aims to know when AIDS becomes a responsibility of an individual . It talks about what an individual can do to help alleviate AIDS in the world , and what measures should one take to effectively administer the methods involved . Since the individual

alone is not enough to erase AIDS , this also tackles issues on the role of the society to rid the world of AIDS . This study aims to know when AIDS becomes a social responsibility , too , since it is believed that the society as a whole is also another effective tool in getting rid of AIDS

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Introduction : AIDS : An overview

II . How AIDS Becomes an Individual Responsibility

III . Why AIDS is a Responsibility of the Society

HIV /AIDS : Whose Responsibility Is It

The first cases of AIDS were discovered in 1981 , in which symptoms were seen in the homosexual males residing in the United States of America At first , AIDS was not called AIDS . Its original name was GRID , standing for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency . It was later on discovered that the disease already existed years ago . Symptoms were manifested by a Bantu man in 1959 in the Belgian Congo (Udema , 2007 ,

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AIDS , also known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , refers to a medical condition caused by a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus The Human Immunodeficiency Virus , also known as HIV , infects the cells in an individual 's body while at the same time reproducing themselves to millions more to do more damage in the body . If an individual has HIV he or she will most likely develop AIDS because the HIV will damage the cells that defend the body against diseases . The virus will make the condition a way to reduce the immune system 's effectiveness . In this case , the virus leaves a person highly prone to tumors and infections (Maggiore , et .al , 2007 ,

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HIV , on the other hand , can be passed from one individual to another through bodily fluid . HIV can be transmitted through sex , blood and mother to child during pregnancy . It is then a misnomer that HIV can be transmitted through seating on toilet seats used by people with AIDS eating food which a patient prepared , shaking hands , hugging and touching a person infected with AIDS , animal or insect bites and sharing cutlery and crockery . AIDS /HIV is then a highly dangerous medical condition because it attacks the very system that products an individual from diseases and from viruses (Shilts , 2007 ,

.244 . Specifically AIDS /HIV destroys a special type of cell in the immune system called the CD4 lymphocyte and once the body acquired the HIV . The immune system consists of organs and cells that shield the body by battling with diseases and...