The Age of AIDS Study Guide Part 2 Part 2

1. When Mandela is released from Jail, _______ of the South African population had been infected with AIDS but the government did very little to combat the growing epidemic over the following four years. 2. In 1984, _________________ saw his job being mostly that of reconciliation and led his vice president to take the helm of the AIDS fight. 3. ___________________ ran for president in 1992 promising to take the lead in the AIDS fight, in stark contrast to Reagan. 4. HIV was thought to be ________________ for several years before infection but scientists found out that it replicated by the __________________on a daily basis starting on the first day of infection, it just took a long time before these actions progressed to compromise the immune system. 5. In 1996, the ________________ developed by the team working under Dr. David Ho shows incredible promise against the AIDS virus, the cost was 16 thousand dollars a year. 6. By 1996, __________________ Africans where infected with HIV with no way of affording the cost of treatment, which lead to an enormous moral question being asked. 7. Brazil had 500 thousand infected AIDS patients in the 1990s, the government built the AIDS __________________ in poor neighborhoods but it wasnt until a patient brought the government to court did they provide the triple cocktail to their population. 8. _________________can prevent transmission between mother and child. 9. _____________ of new AIDS infections come from IV drug users within the United States. 10. ___________________________ people died by the end of the 1990s by HIV/AIDS infections while most of the international community still looked the other way. 11. The pharmaceutical industry stand behind their intellectual property rights behind the AIDS drugs they had developed at the cost of ________________ peoples lives. 12. _______________________ creates a 15 billion dollar ___________________________fund to help provide free AIDS drugs to Africans dying of AIDS to sidestep the UN Global Fund pushed by Kofi Annan. 13. UN Global Fund against AIDS targeted over 160 countries while the Bush plan concentrated on mostly ___________________ countries. 14. __________________ in China affected the global community to open transparency about health problems. 15. Triple cocktail needs to be taken for ___________________ as the infection returns afterwards, HIV never go away from a persons body, you can suppress it but not eradicate it. 16. Bushs AIDS plan relies on __________________ where 20% of funds are allocated and shies away from ___________________________ talk such as condom use. 17. Prostitution, homosexuality and condom distribution are ___________________ regarding receiving funds from the Bush administration. 18. Triple cocktail users live up to _________________ longer on the drugs but the costs take up a large portion of government health care budgets. 19. Drugs and treatment programs cannot keep-up with_______________ rates. 20. HIV spreads among mostly __________________ populations now.

21. Current generation dont know the face or challenges with AIDS, they tend to think its a ________________________ disease with little consequences, which is false.

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