CUURENT HIV SITUATION

The disease HIV/AIDS has spread so fast in the world today, especially in the poor and developing nations of the world.Africa,Asia,Latin,America and other parts of the world has come under its cover.Today about thirty five million people are HIV infected.African and Asia countries are under highest spread of HIV, South Africa being the largest HIV infected land while in terms of number of HIV patients India is emerging as the leader.About 3 million people die every year due to HIV infection.No drugs or treatments have been proved effective to cure it, even some primary stage inventions are very costly.The main reason as to why it spread so fast in poor countries is because,these countries have most of the population under poor condition,not having enough nutrition and also because they have no awareness about preventing steps and knowledge have resulted into wide spread of HIV. 
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,researchers had discovered that HIV is derived from chimpanzee native to west equatorial Africa.This epidemic is spreading throughout countries and infecting 14 thousands victims every day.Learning about HIV includes knowing how to contract the virus understanding most of the people it affects,how to prevent the spread of it,and knowing what treatments are available.

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