AIDS: Why Should You Care?

What Are the Symptoms of AIDS?•rapid weight loss

•dry cough

•recurring fever or profuse night sweats

•profound and unexplained fatigue

•swollen lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck

•diarrhea that lasts for more than a week

•white, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids

•memory loss, depression, and other neurological disorders

What Does AIDS Look Like?

What Does AIDS Look Like?

What Does AIDS Look Like?

Global Trends : AIDS

AIDS – Global Issue

2/3 of all global AIDS cases are in Africa

Who Gets AIDS?Doctors and Dentists

Rape Victims

Blood Transfusions

People with no access to condomschildren

Intravenous drug users

gay menWives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends

Magic Johnson Contracted AIDS in 1999

1991 2009

AIDS Drugs

Can be up to $20,000 a year

Who Can Afford Treatment?

• Developing countries cannot afford Aids drugs

• The United States in particular has been accused of stopping the developing world from producing drugs generically, insisting they import American-made drugs at Western prices.