HIV
By: Sam Kim
Brief history of HIV and AIDS
People believed that HIV and AIDS came from gay men having sex with each other. Also they believed that it all started from one person "Patient Zero". But too many people were getting infected for just one person to transfer the disease. So after the believed "Patient Zero" died, scientist isolated the disease and traced it back to Haiti and from Haiti to Africa.
Treatment
- drug cocktail- inconsistent
- antiretrovirals- inhibits reverse transcription
- Highly Active Antiviral Therapy (HAART)-HAART decreases the total burden of HIV, maintains function of immune system, and prevents opportunistic infections that often leads to death
drug cocktail
multiple types of pills in one bottle