Mr. Sampson Onwuka
The origin of HIV is the dividing line between several
schools of HIV, and remain one of the demanding intellectual curve for most
American scientist. Although we have problems doubting the origins of the virus
as a natural reaction to unsafe environment, we point that some of the earliest
triumphs on HIV acknowledged this difficulty in the nativity of HIV, and there
are factors that shoved the attention of the primary group and the problems of
stigma to Africa where research on HIV and its early triumphs ended a slowly,
dying in effect. This stigma issues as an obstacle to the fight against HIV was
also raised by Nelson Mandela and seem the theme behind the recent
releases on the subject and discourses on HIV. Stigma is part of the concerns
raised by Randy Shilts on why the government failed to narrow down the first
cases of HIV in U.S.A, and isolate the patients without victimizing them, and
essentially quarantine the virus at its early stage. Of course the assumptions
are that the virus started with some he called Patient Zero – as if from him
and other like him, the spread of HIV moved upwards. This myth – or not so a
myth – is a problem wrapped in its enigma, such that the antibodies that we
find deposited on the body of the victims and containing large tracts of CD4s
are mainly due to the inability of the
body to match the rapid mitosis on the coupled RNA viruses. Eventually these T
Cells give in due to weakened presence of oxygen bearing Red Blood cells, of
course the product of which is the survival of the nucleus bearing White Blood
cells from and through whence the interpretation and the translation of the
foreign bodies are repackaged for the use of the body. As the story targeted
these new inductee Gay Homosexuals, there was more than enough reason to have
considered the virus as a staid from hemophiliacs, in fact some of the argument
raised by Randy Shilts is that the government and corporations of interest did not
meet the smallest general obligations for the distribution of the blood
samples, that some of them were also infected with turned to be Pneumocystis
Carinii Pneumonia. Brett Grodick (2007), describes life with HIV as a “chronic
manageable condition” from what it’s to be and yet people are scared of the words
“you are HIV-POSITIVE” and a lot has changed since the first cases of the virus
but he acceptance that the virus has its own physical symptoms usually leads to
stigma, and the stigma in all communities of AIDS, especially in Gay
Communities is one of the strongest and through-going. One of the lessons on
HIV which hardly dies away is the fact that majority of those concerned about
HIV viruses and the incidents of AIDS, are usually AIDS victims, some of whom
are members of the Gay Community. He argues that besides the problems of social
acceptance and struggling problems of the community, there is nothing more
profound than the problems of physical changes.. He gives us an example in his
book that “Imagine having the words “AIDS” tattooed on your forehead. That’s
how some people with HIV feel when they start to experience body shape changes,
especially when they occur in the face…” He advises that “…studies have shown
that replacing a nuke called Stavudine (Zerit) with either Abacavir (Zingen) or
AZT (Retrovir) has produced “Statistically significant but clinical modest”
increases in the amount of fat on extremities such as legs and arms.”
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