Friday, June 2, 2017

HIV (10)

MR. 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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