Aids / Hiv The Time Of The Great Revolution - 2043 Words

AIDS/HIV first originated in Kinshasa, Africa during the 1920s: the time of the Great Revolution. Kinshasa had many routes that linked to other parts of the world which may help explain the disease spreading like a wildfire. AIDS/HIV began to spread through Sub-Saharan Africa mostly through heterosexual sex: the diseases main route of transmission. Then it ate up more of Africa until it began reaching other parts of the world. Another are reporting AIDS/HIV was Brazzaville, The Republic of Congo in 1937 most likely because of the high population of migrants and sex workers along the many routes of transmission. Haiti was next to blame for the further transmission of the disease across the world. When AIDS reached Haiti in the 1960s, a†¦show more content†¦HIV-1, responsible for most of the disease today, was first discovered to have originated from Chimpanzees in 1999. HIV-2, the second type of the virus, was discovered to be transmitted through monkeys most likely through the consumption of their meat. There are two different types of the illness: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, essentially breaks down the body’s CD4 cells which help to assist fighting off infections in your body. Overtime, this will hindrance your body’s ability to fight off diseases which can be potentially life threatening. The last stage of HIV is linked to AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS is a specific group of diseases/conditions that are indicative of severe immunosuppression related to infection with HIV. This makes people infected with the disease more vulnerable to opportunistic infections which their body will be unable to fight off towards the later stages of the disease. Most people diagnosed with AIDS have an estimated three years to live, but people that do not get diagnosed have an estimated one year to survive. There are many reasons for how the disease spread across the world. For one, Kinshasa has many transportation routes: migrants crossing through and many sex workers. Once a tiny drop of infected blood gets into a healthy person the disease is immediately spread to them. When the virus first reached the United States of America, Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that