Question

In the 1990’s HIV/AIDS was a topic of great concern to people in the U.S. As information was disseminated, fears about HIV/AIDS decreased. Many people in the U.S. no longer consider HIV/AIDS a serious health threat. What do current statistics reveal? Has HIV/AIDS been eradicated in the U.S.? Are those with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. today only those considered marginalized? What would health care in the U.S. today be like if HIV/AIDS had become the pandemic it is in other countries? ( answer in approx 250 words)

Answer 1

CURRENT STATISTICS OF HIV AIDS IN USA :

Approximately 1.1 million people in United States are battling HIV and almot 15 % of the population are unaware that they are infected because of the incubation period in HIV. 39,782 were newly diagnosed in the year 2016 wherein the age groups of 20 - 29 years were the highest among the age groups around 14,740.

HAS HIV BEEN ERADICATED FROM USA :

HIV has not been eradicated and we are far away from preventing it, however there has been researches going on in order to eradicate it but we are still very far away from implementing it, more than finding the cure the people living with HIV AIDS needs to be accepted in the society as a human and not as a disease host which many of us fails to accept. HIV not only attacks the human physically but it also affects the mental health status of the human being which can be prevented if the society is more accetable in nature. Recent study says that the highly active anti-retroviral therapy(HAART) has succeded in preventing the growth of HIV virus which means it prevents it to its complication which is Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Again the HAART only prevents and supresses the virus but it does not cure HIV.