Origin of HIV

Most likely you are going to find a lot on this site

Homo homini lupus ~ the human is a human, a wolf

i'm not sure but maybe you'll find something on these sites

www.avert.org

www.teensource.org

live each moment in your life like you're going to die the next moment, life is too short to waste it on fights and being sad, SMILE!!!!!!!!!!

well the man on the telephone who was wanting money said that aids origin is africa. so I'm sure my view on it isn't anything different then what those links there would give you.

for the second point re the stigmatization and/or discrimination of hiv/aids patients .... where the hell to start with that. I mean for the last year I was working with individuals who have hiv/aids and their families. And the discrimination they face is just horrible. I went to one of our northern communities to visit a client and his family, and inside the security of their home they were all happy they were loving they were run of the mill type folks and if you didn't know that their son had aids you'd think they were the average normal family. And then we went out to go pick up some groceries for supper and he said he'd stay at home. The point of my visit though was to see him, see his interactions and his life not his families they were only a small part of it. And he said he couldn't come because it wouldn't be a good outcome. I was always going on about the outcomes and what we needed to achieve, and I didn't get it because to me the outcomes are never bad they're something you learn from. I thought most people were like me because this community was like the same as the community where I grew up and I insisted he came, and so he came with us, and I felt so ashamed after and horrible because if I hadn't asked him to come, if I wasn't so blissfully ignorrant to his reality he would have never had to endure that because he would have been at home. The shop clerk came up to him and told him not to touch the fruit, the butcher wouldn't serve him he wouldn't even look at him, and the lady in the bakery when we asked for the dinner rolls she looked at us like we were the worst kind of people in the world. She didn't want him to accidently touch him, she didn't want him to touch the counter she put the rolls on a tray and pushed it towards me. And when we were making our way to the till, the man who owns the shop came over and told his mother "i though we understood he couldn't be near the open food that I have to sell". This woman who not even an hour ago appeared to be the strongest mother I'd ever seen turned into this cowering defeated individual, and it was because she felt she couldn't defend her sons basic right to buy food. I spent three days up there, and he was called a queer, aids fucker, homo, monkey lover, and an array of colourful hateful terms. He didn't get hiv because he was having sex with a man, he didn't even get it from a woman, he didn't get it from drug use, he got it because he was in a car accident and the hospital gave him bad blood. They meant to save his life and instead they gave him a death sentence. And these people in a town of no more than 500 folks, where he spent his whole childhood and youth, and only left because he wanted to go to university, shun him. They don't want him because they don't want to get sick. His mother is a school teacher and when they found out that her son moved home the parents wanted her to get tested because they wanted to make sure that their children wouldn't get sick.

my co-worker and really the only one at the office who I have always liked, hes been sick now for 13 years or there about, well it was 13 years ago that he found out he was sick. And everyone knows he's openly gay. And I went and spent a night at his place, which isn't uncommon because we get on well and staying in hotels gets old. He is a very open guy he doesn't hide the fact that he has aids, and one of the provincial workers and I were talking at the airport on our way home, and he wanted to know why my friend hadn't come to work and since I was staying at the house with him he knew I'd know why. And I said well he has a cold and the girl in the office is getting over the flu and with him being sick its just easier for him and his health if he stays at home. And he looked at me and said what are you talking about and I said well he has aids. He looked me, pushed his chair back and said to me with a rather appauling sound in his voice "are you going to get tested?". I had to tell my coworker that this man didn't know, and I thought he knew and I told him, and my coworker said it was fine he himself thought this guy knew. But ever since then, the man who for years embraced him won't even shake his hand.

this is Canada, where our government spent millions of dollars on education and awareness of HIV/AIDS, and still there are people who fear it and fear those who have it.

My house mum in Jamaica, she was a nurse, and the one day me and my housemates are going through her collection of movies and reading material, and I came across this vhs tape entitled something like "the truth about aids" and when I flipped it over it basically gave you the impression that the whole video was about africans getting it because they deserved and that basically all horrible people will get it - when I asked my house mum about she said it was a production that her church got from their head church whatever, and it brought about this discussion on HIV/AIDS and I was the only Canadian in the room, my house mum was from Jamaica and my four house mates were all from one island nation or another and listening to them, I was taken back because they were talking about getting hiv from sharing cups, and I thought I had misunderstood them because I was having a hard time with their english, and they meants cups like an actually cup I'd use for coffee because that wee bit of saliva that they might leave would someone get into another person and boom they'd have it. I didn't know what to say. Two of my housemates were some odd religion where you can't do anything from sundown to sunrise on like saturday or something maybe it was sunday, either way we're all locked up in this house because our house mum was that religion too, and I sat there for an hour listening to them and was disgusted by how they viewed people with HIV/AIDS. the one actually suggested that ending their life would be better for the economy and society as a whole.

good luck with your thing

There are some links:

Lithuania - www.aids.lt

Estonia - www.aids.ee

Russia - www.aids.ru

Sweden - www.lovepower.org www.kondom.nu www.citruspromotion.com www.hiv.nu
Finland - www.aidscouncil.fi

European Council of AIDS Service Organizations (EuroCASO)
www.web.apc.org/~icaso/eurocaso.html

European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS
www.ceses.org

European AIDS Enterprise Network (EAEN)
- www.eaen.org UNAIDS - www.unaids.org

HIVNET - www.hivnet.org

World Health Organization - www.who.ch

Global Network Of People Living With HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gnp

AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP)
www.fhi.org

Glaxo Wellcome PLC – Positive Action
www.positiveaction.com

Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
www.dsk.de/rds/00535.htm

East African Network of AIDS Service Organizations (EANSAO)
www.positifs.org/g/ca/afest.htm

British Medical Association Foundation for AIDS
www.bmaids.demon.co.uk

Australian Federation of AIDS Organization (AFAO)
www.pinkboard.com.au

Q Web - A Women's Empowerment Base
www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se

wish you luck doing your project!

I have just viewed your profile jagbabe and I see you are from Ghana. It's quite refereshing to see that someone from Africa is aware of AIDS and HIV viruses and wanting to learn more about it. Please keep us posted on how you get on with your project.

Hello... It's a very interesting subject you got. - I'm a nurse student, so maybe I can help a bit.
First of all, there's difference between HIV and AIDS. - Many people are ofte saying that people has AIDS. But first of all you get affected with HIV... the HIV virus gets into the normal cells and chance the DNA, it mean that the "normal" cells doesn't work like they normally do. They begin to break down the rest of your body and your immunesystem as well....
AIDS is when you get for example the following desease: pneumonia, etc. - You become sick all the time, you lose weight, you are getting almost blind, etc... In the end you aren't able to do anymore, even thougt you give some medication, the body aren't able to normalize again.
But today we have medication, who can help HIV positive patients. It makes the patients live much longer and they are able to live a "normal" life. But... it's always important to use protection, and it also protects you again sexual deseases.

At the hospital, it's important that you use gloves, when you have to work with blood or neadles.
Otherwise, they aren't dangerous. - It's important that you treat them like you would treat other patients.
In the begining of the 80's in Denmark, people where really discriminated by HIV/AIDS people. People didn't have the same information about it like, we have today, and people didn't exactly knew how you could get infected... Now we know a lot more today. - Today, people are more down to earth theese days.

Good luck with your project.

origin of HIV/AIDS:

HIV is the pathogen of AIDS. However, the HIV pathogen is harder to be infectious than other pathogens. The HIV virus is mainly transmitted through body fluids, with enough of the HI-virus. For an HIV-infection there are body fluids like semen or vaginal fluids, blood or traces of blood important.
HIV is predominantly in the following situations: unprotected sexual intercourses like vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse and oral sex. And so on ...

stigmatization or/and discrimination:

Due to the fact that some still have a misconception on how HIV is transmitted, many people have prejudices and believe that HIV and AIDS are in conjunction with sex, drugs and certain taboos (for instance sex before marriage, gay relationships, prostitution and injecting drugs, etc.).
For example, not only the victims themselves with the HIV / AIDS were discriminated. Their relatives and friends are affected too, although they itself have nothing to do with it. You will be viewed as a disgrace for different reasons in society. No matter if they know you or not.
And if these people were ruled out from society because of their illness because of certain prejudices, one don't need hardly to be surprised, why they don't want to talk about their disease no longer. This leads in the broadest sense, that nothing more will be experienced about the disease so that others could be protected. Then you could ask yourself who is then irresponsible.

Kudos to Canadian researchers for their latest discovery..one day this hopefully will be wiped out..

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/02/29/4884416-sun.html

The un-inspirational behavior of others determines our willingness to believe their words. Their life and truths then become like wind, collecting dust in its passing. -lea