Healthcare

Last lesson we were talking about healthcare. I choose very unpleasant disease AIDS. Let's talk about AIDS. AIDS is one of the most serious diseases which threaten people nowadays. It´s  the viral disease that impairs the immune system of the human body which thus can get any infection. Those infections which are not dangerous for people with normal immune system any be mortally dangerous for AIDS patients. It involves infection with the HIV virus. The virus damages the immune system of the human body by infecting white blood cells. The symptoms are persistent fever, fatigue, weakness, diarrhea weight loss, infection of the mouth. There are more means of transmission. Some of the known ways are through sexual intercourse, infected hypodermic needles and from the mother to its fetus. The virus is not passed on through touching or shaking hands. We cannot catch the virus by touching objects used by infected person, cutlery, glasses, towels, toilet, seats etc. No cure has yet been found for this disease. AIDS was first identified in the USA in 1981 since that time increasing homosexuals; later AIDS was identified among  drug abusers, hemophiliacs and other persons who had received blood transfusion. Despite the high level of awareness among the population and extensive publicity campaigns, new cases of infection keep on appearing.

European Commission in late 2005, it proposed measures to combat HIV and AIDS for 2006-2009 only in the European Union, but also in neighboring countries. In the years 2000 - 2006 held several political meetings at international, European and global level in order to prevent the growing epidemic of HIV infection / AIDS. Topic very intensively involved in the Commission, Council, Parliament, the United Nations. Have established specific reference centers, such as UNAIDS and EuroHIV. Messages EuroHIV and UNAIDS confirm that the number of people newly infected with HIV is increasing alarmingly in the European Union, as well as in neighboring countries. In some countries the estimated number of HIV-infected nearly three times higher than the official number.