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HIV/AIDS in Urban Communities

Introduction

HIV commonly known as Aids is one of the most deadly sexually transmitted disease which damages the immune system to the extent that it stops functioning in its ability to fight off the viruses which enters into the human body, bacteria's and also fungi which causes all sorts of diseases and therefore making a human body susceptible to many types of cancers and certain infections to which the body normally resists and these includes infections like meningitis and pneumonia. And the infection and the virus itself are commonly known as HIV. The name AIDS which stands for Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is given to the further stages of the infection caused by HIV (CDC HIV/AIDS, n.d.).

For more than two decades AIDS have existed in the USA being first reported in 1981. The cases for HIV have been reported all around the world. And as of the end of 2012, 35 million people have been found to be living with HIV and around 8000 people get infected every day. This pandemic has caused a multiple level of impacts on many nations structure because it often hardest hits the working population class as these skilled workers are lost to the epidemic. Also the education sector gets affected a lot as it has claimed lives of many teachers and has caused serious shortages of teachers across the world, Africa especially and has also affected the school's enrolment and attendance among children who gets affected by Aids. The increasing demand for the healthcare service has overwhelmed the public health infrastructure among many nations and the situation is made worse with the fact that among the Aids victims were also many health care workers. Nations which were hit hardest by the HIV have been reported to suffer from famine, food insecurity and malnutrition. The premature deaths of individuals have lead to fewer working age people who could support and provide for the children and the elderly. There are disproportionately much men compared to women left in some parts of the world due to HIV mortality (Stillwaggos, 2001). 

The United States has a much concentrated HIV epidemic among gay people which are men having sex with each other, according to the UNAIDS. Even though there has not been much of a bigger impact on the US general population from the epidemic of HIV, it has had a bad affect on the economically disadvantaged among many urban areas. In this paper we sought to characterize the epidemic of HIV / ADIS in poor urban areas of the United States and also determine whether these areas meet the UNAIDS definition of a generalized epidemic (HIV Still Plagues the U.S, n.d.).

Discussion

The Urban Communities do not have the same access to the medical advancements and the level of treatment that the rural communities do. Because of this a wide number of diseases run unnoticed and are spreading throughout these urban communities due to its lack of economic structure which results in the lack of ...