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Provide a 10 pages analysis while answering the following question: HIV Infection and AIDS. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

Provide a 10 pages analysis while answering the following question: HIV Infection and AIDS. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Since that time, as the number of victims has increased a lot, medical science has been making progressive discoveries concerning HIV, AIDS and the ways of its treatment. According to researchers, the HIV virus cannot cause death or disease on its own, it is AIDS that is caused by the HIV virus destroying the immunity of an individual. “The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been decisively established as the cause of AIDS” (Canadian AIDS Society).

The 2012’s data showed that about 35 million people worldwide live with HIV virus with the lion’s share of them still alive owing to antiretroviral therapy. More than 60% of HIV positive people live in Africa in sub-Saharan areas. Here, the outbreak of HIV infection began in the late 1970’s – early 1980’s. Then it spread to the U.S., Western Europe, countries of South Africa and further: nowadays, the most vulnerable regions’ list includes Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

However, there are factors explaining the uneven epidemiological patterns. AIDS is, first of all, a social disease. And only then a medical one. Thus, the level of contagion varies throughout the world, depending on numerous factors of influence. The level of AIDS contagion varies from continent to continent due to the influence of social, economic, political, cultural, religious and psychophysiological factors.

Considering the effect of social factors, one could take social stratification peculiarities into account. This includes social differentiation between the rich and the poor: if the gap between these two strata is broadened because of the absence of the middle class, such society will be extremely vulnerable to the spread of infection. It has been proved throughout the history of humanity that all the vices are typical mainly for those who are extremely wealthy and those beyond the poverty line. That is why this social factor creates fertile soil for the spreading of HIV&nbsp.virus, as the transmission of the virus via sexual contacts is the most common type worldwide (Morison).&nbsp.

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