2. HIV/AIDS??
AIDS: Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome
HIV: Human immune deficiency virus
HIV can pass generally during unprotected sex,contaminated syringes,infected
mothers to their babies
HIV cannot pass or doesn’t spread through
saliva,urine,kissing,insectbite,sharing utensils
AIDS was discovered in 1983
About 40 million people are affected with HIV/AIDS-Africa,china,Russia,india
About 3 million people died due to HIV/AIDS in 2003
3. WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Some believe that the origin is from monkeys and
other apes is in Africa
It also spreads through HIV contaminated polio vaccine
program
Hepatitis B viral vaccine in new York, loss angeles and
sanfrancisco
Through small pox vaccine programs of Africa
Some believe that it is man made ---- genetic engineering
6. TREATMENT
HIV/AIDS itself does not kills a person.it has no
symptoms—no cure as yet
People die due to loss of immunity–- which results in
weaken of immune system of immune system
There is treatment available to most of infectious diseases
like tuberculosis etc…
There is decline in T-cells ---key infection fighters in
immune system
Vaccine?
7. HIV---INDIAN SCENARIO
The global estimate of HIV infected people has crossed 40 million figure, UN
report
As per indian picture particularly in states of A.P ,Karnataka
,tamilnadu,Maharashtra,Nagaland and Manipur where HIV has crossed one 1%
mark among pregnant women
Manipur and Chennai are found---transmission of HIV– injecting drug
While in taminadu,sex workers are more
HIV infected--- 6 million people .
8. EFFECTS OF HIV/AIDS ON ENVIRONMENT
Large number of deaths adversely effect local environment
Most of the people infected are labours---loss of labour and so
production decreases
With the fewer adults young members find it difficult to survive
People who are effected become the weak and cannot do physical works
like farming etc….
more water is require to hygiene in aids effected locality
