Intravenous Drug Users

HIV and AIDS

HIV/AIDS is on the rise among women both in Canada and around the world. HIV/AIDS was once considered a disease that affects mainly men who engage in sexual activity with other men. But, the face of AIDS is changing. Intravenous drug users, and heterosexuals run the same risks of contracting HIV/AIDS as anyone else, if they are not careful.


The percentage of reported AIDS cases in Canada among women has steadily increased over the years. Before 1995 only 6.4% of reported cases were women, in 2000 that number almost doubled to 12%, and in 2003 it had more than doubled to 25.2%. This rise in reported HIV/AIDS cases affects women in Canada primarily between the ages of 15 and

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49. It is estimated that 36% of new infections in Canada are women, with Newfoundland having the highest male to female ratio of infections; for every three men in Newfoundland that are positive there is one woman who is positive, in Ontario this ratio is 17 to 1.


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AIDS 101- What You Absolutely Need to Know

Introduction


Due both to the stigma and the awareness program attached with it, now AIDS has become a common household term. There are very less people who actually know that the exact word is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS in short. Because of the morbidity and mortality attached and also because of the ignorance about it there are lots and lots of myths against this deadly disease. This alone shows the anxiety and concern of the general mass.


History


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Female Sex Workers are Vulnerable for HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh

The over all HIV/AIDS epidemics situation is low in Bangladesh. But it is increasing very high in some heterogeneous group who are actually vulnerable of HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS spread out very quickly in all over the population. There are many ways in Bangladesh to HIV/AIDS increasing issue.
The cause of poverty, gender discrimination, low prevalence of health facility, lack of reproductively knowledge, illiteracy and high risky behavior may be called epidemic in future of Bangladesh. The atmosphere, which is needed to spread HIV as epidemic of HIV/AIDS, those are present in Bangladesh.


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AIDS 101- What You Absolutely Need to Know

Introduction


Due both to the stigma and the awareness program attached with it, now AIDS has become a common household term. There are very less people who actually know that the exact word is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS in short. Because of the morbidity and mortality attached and also because of the ignorance about it there are lots and lots of myths against this deadly disease. This alone shows the anxiety and concern of the general mass.


History


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The Rapid Progression and Spreading Of Hepatitis C

It was only in 1989 that Hepatitis C was given its official name. Prior to that, scientists were unsure whether it was in any way different from other forms of Hepatitis, and so for a long time it was referred to only as non-A or non-B Hepatitis. Hepatitis C is a serious infection that is transmitted via blood-to-blood contact, and at current estimates it’s believed around 4 million people in the United States alone have Hepatitis C, with around 170 million people around the world infected.


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