AIDS

What Does Aids Mean?

Aids is a very deadly disease.

 How to contract AIDS
AIDS is contracted in sex.

It can also be contracted from blood.

How does AIDS come into your
system?
 When was AIDS found
The first known case of HIV in a human
occurred in a person who died in the Congo.

The disease was found in Africa.

 First admitted
Most of the first admitted were gay men.

1980 is the first admitted human in the USA.

for AIDS.
 Deaths of Aids
Many Americans die each year from AIDS.

The total of deaths keep getting bigger.

 Finding Treatment
Before the 80s scientists didnt what caused
the disease.
In 1986 scientists discovered the way HIV
infects cells.
 Treatment of HIV/AIDS
Theres no cure for HIV/AIDS.

The drug known as AZT can control the

disease.
 How to prevent AIDS
Wear condoms

Wear gloves when dealing with other peoples

blood
 AIDS in The Sweet Hereafter
Mitchell Stevens daughter got AIDS

Mitchell is trying to save his daughter Zoe,

from her drug addiction
 Works Cited
A Time of Aids. Aids.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 28
Aug. 2013.

HIV and AIDS History avert.org. N.p., n.d. Web.

28 AUG. 2013