Outline Of A Speech On Hiv And Aids

According to the CDC website, Hemophilia, is a hereditary bleeding disorder which affects mostly males due to X chromosome singularity. Hemophilia is a medical condition in which the blood clotting becomes a challenge for those affected. Symptoms include spontaneous bleeding from injuries or surgery. Blood contains many proteins called clotting factors that assist in blood coagulation, however; those individuals with hemophilia have low levels of either factor VIII or factor IX. The severity of the condition is determined by the amount of factor in the blood thus the lower the amount of the factor, the higher the chances that spontaneous bleeding will occur leading to more severe health complications.

Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disease in which blood lacks blood-clotting proteins. Females have two X chromosomes, indicating that they are generally carriers and transmit the gene to their sons. People with mild hemophilia bleed after surgery, injury, or trauma. Severe hemophilia produces spontaneous internal bleeding in joints and muscles. Fortunately, medicines and lifestyle changes offers hemophiliacs fairly normal lives. Through learning about hemophilia, I became interested in genetic diseases and finding a cure for those

HIV and AIDS have affected millions of people throughout the world. Since 1981, there have been 25 million deaths due to AIDS involving men, women, and children. Presently there are 40 million people living with HIV and AIDS around the world and two million die each year from AIDS related illnesses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that one-third of the one million Americans living with HIV are not aware that they have it. The earliest known case of HIV was in 1959. It was discovered in a blood sample from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Looking further into the genetics of this blood sample researchers suggested that it had originated from a virus going back to the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. In 1999,

The genetic disorder of Hemophilia is where the clotting factors of the blood are absent or deficient, causing it to be a dangerous disorder to the people who have it. This disorder is where the people who have it will bleed easily and accessibly. Different types of hemophilia are classified by different deficient clotting factors in the blood. Treatments for hemophilia are available, including transfusions of frozen

First described by Babylonian Jews more than 1700 years ago (NCBI, 2011), hemophilia A has been considered a very interesting genetic disease ever since. In addition, hemophilia A gained widespread attention after Queen Victoria transmitted the disease to several royal families in Europe (NCBI, 2011). As scientists gain more knowledge regarding this genetic disease, more effective treatments have emerged as a result.

Haemophilia is a genetic disorder that is passed through generations on the x chromosomes, that affects the clotting factor in the blood and makes patients more prone to spontaneous and injury-resulted bleeding which is usually internal. According to the Haemophilia Foundation Australia (2015), there are over 3,000 cases of haemophilia in Australia, and more than half the cases are in males. The National Haemophilia Foundation (2013) website shows that cases of haemophilia go back to the 2n d century, where Jewish boys who have records of uncontrollable bleeding leading to death in their family do not have to undergo circumcision, also cases in 10th century Arabia show deaths of males after uncontrollable bleeding due to trauma. The first

Hemophilia is a hereditary and genetic mutation blood disease that does not have the ability to form a blood clot or coagulate from a small injury. The word hemophilia comes from two Greek words: haima - meaning blood and philia meaning to love. In order for the blood to clot properly, the plasma proteins also called factors need to be present in the blood. When the body forms antibodies to the clotting factors in the blood, it will stop the clotting factors from working. There are 13 types of clotting factors and they involve platelets to help the blood coagulate. Platelets also known as thrombocytes are small blood cells that form in your bone marrow to prevent blood loss by initiating a blood clot.

     Most bleeding episodes in hemophilia are not considered “life-threatening”. There are however, some areas of the body, or some witnessed events that should be treated as an emergency. It is important that people with hemophilia receive factor and seek medical attention immediately if they witness or suspect a bleed to any of the following areas: head, eye, neck, stomach, spine, or hip (“hemophilia” 2002).

Haemophilia is an inherited blood clotting disorder where the blood doesn’t clot properly because there isn’t enough clotting factor VIII or IX in the blood of someone who is affected by haemophilia (ref). There are two types of haemophilia. The most common form, Haemophilia A, or Classic Haemophilia, affects people who are deficient in factor VIII and Haemophilia B, or Christmas Disease, affects people who are deficient in factor IX. Haemophilia can also be referred to as ‘the royal disease’ because it affected royal families in England, Germany, Russia and Spain in the 19th and 20th centuries. Queen Victoria from the English royal family is believed to have carried the altered gene of haemophilia having a factor XI deficiency. In Australia there are approximately 3000 people affect by haemophilia and majority of them are males, with severe haemophilia extremely rare in females, but some females do have lower factor levels and bleeding symptoms. Abnormal bleedings had first been recorded hundreds of years ago, but wasn’t announced publicly until 1803 when a physician from Philadelphia, John Conrad Otto, published an article about a hemorrhagic bleeding disorder that affect mainly males.

Hemophilia is the oldest known hereditary bleeding disorder. There are two types of hemophilia, A and B (Christmas Disease). Low levels or complete absence of a blood protein essential for clotting causes both. Patients with hemophilia A lack the blood clotting protein, factor VIII, and those with hemophilia B lack factor IX. A person with severe hemophilia has less than 1% of the normal amount of a clotting factor - either Factor VIII (8) or Factor IX (9). People without hemophilia have between 50-150% of the normal level of factor VIII or IX. There are about 20,000 hemophilia patients in the United States. Each year, about 400 babies are born with this disorder. Approximately 85% have hemophilia A and the remainder has hemophilia B.

Hemophilia is a problem with the blood in a person that causes them to bleed not any faster than normal, but they often bleed for a longer period. Their blood is missing the clotting factor (a protein in the bloodstream that works to control bleeding). Hemophilia is quite rare; roughly 1 in every 10,000 persons are born with it. Rarely, hemophilia can be an acquired disease which just means a person is not born with it, but will develop it during their lifetime. This rarity occurs when a person's immune system forms antibodies that attack the clotting factor in the blood. The entire antibody population fights against the blood to prevent the clotting factors from working properly.

When you are planning a romantic evening, your first thought is likely not about STDs. Moreover, if you are in a happy, long-time relationship, you may not even think sexually transmitted diseases are even an issue. However, the risk of getting a virus or disease is very real, for both men and women. It is even possible that you've had an STD, even if you didn't realize it.

This history of HIV/AIDS as a blurry timeline before the 1980’s since that was around the time reports came in which eventually become an HIV report. The origin of HIV can be traced back to the early part of the century. Some believe that in the 1920’s chimpanzees from the Congo came into contact with humans (Avert, 2016). Though reports were not identified as HIV until the 1980’s, the belief that HIV was already scattered throughout four other continents may have been incident (Avert, 2016). Even though for the past 30 years the world has been diligently working to find a cure and pushing prevention, we are still struggling each year with increasing diagnosis. The beginning of HIV did end with lots of death, but now with our improved antiviral medication there is hope for many.

In the 1980s, a mysterious disease began to take the lives of Americans. With the cause unknown, a fear grew among Americans. An unusually high rate of people was becoming sick with strange and rare diseases. When experimental treatments failed to work, people died. This mysterious disease is what we now know as HIV–Human Immunodeficiency Virus. In the past thirty-five years, the HIV has taken many turns in history. Although we do not hear about HIV and AIDS now, it is still a prevalent issue in the United States and in the world.

HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus which damages and kills cells of the immune system. It attacks the T-cells, key cells of the immune system, and uses them to make copies of itself. After being infected with the virus it progressively interferes and eventually destroys the immune system's ability to fight the anti-genes. HIV may develop into the syndrome AIDS, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV is an STD - a sexually transmitted disease - and therefore most commonly it is spread through sexual contact, and the virus mainly enters the body through the penis, mouth, lining of the vagina or vulva during sexual activity. HIV can also be spread through sharing syringes or needles with someone who is infected with the