AIDS AND HIV

At first, we need to be acquainted with the term ‘AIDS'. So on defining aids we can say that aids is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is caused by virus .This virus is known as HIV, the Human Immune deficiency Virus. It is a disease that is socially determined practices shape that it takes in any given setting as much a product of social and cultural structures as it is the result of biological factors .Just as a specific set of cultural and social circumstances shapes the spread of the aids, is also the condition in which the particular societies responds on it. Syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently recognized disease entity.
The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has grown exponentially in the past two decades. A few widely scattered reports from the late 1970’s and early 1980s describe individuals with aids symptoms .The spread of aids has now become pandemics. a worldwide community faces its dire challenges. Since then, the disease has become one of the humanity’s great medical scourages.There is no known cure for the disease and it is still regarded as one-hundred percent fatal.The disease weakens the immune system where the body no longer has the capacity to defend itself against disease carrying microbes. As of now, though, there is no long term or permanent solution for it.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently recognized disease entity. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks selected cells in the immune system and produces defects in function. These defects may not be apparent for years. They lead in a relentless fashion, however, to a severe suppression of the immune system's ability to resist harmful organisms. This leaves the body open to an invasion by various infections, which are therefore called opportunistic diseases, and to the development of unusual cancers. The virus also tends to reach certain brain cells. This leads to so-called neuropsychiatry abnormalities, or psychological disturbances caused by physical damage to nerve cells.
The power of the states to mandate compulsory testing for HIV is derived from their inherent powers to govern, also known as their "police powers," which provide the ability to promulgate reasonable laws necessary to preserve public order, health, safety, welfare, and morals. With regards to the public health, state authority is only limited by the extent to which the federal government has legislated in the particular area (in which case the federal laws will "preempt" the state laws) and to the extent that the state laws interfere with constitutionally protected substantive and procedural rights.
So One strategy is to develop a vaccine that can induce neutralizing antibodies against HIV and protect uninfected individuals if exposed to the virus itself. The second approach involves the discovery and development of therapeutic agents against HIV infection and AIDS. At present no vaccine exists to protect against infection, although recent advances have led some experts to predict that a vaccine should be available within the next 10 years. Obstacles still remain, however, primarily due to the variability of the virus itself. Despite the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS, there is a good deal of hope.
By: Ram saran Adhikari