Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) can be a result of two cy Virus types HIV-1 and HIV-2. A number of primate species carry similar viruses known as Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses, or SIV. Chimpanzees can carry a virus related to HIV-1, but sooty mangabeys, a type of monkey found in West Africa, can carry a virus similar to HIV-2. Humans are thought to have become infected with HIV-1 from sooty mangabeys. Baboons in Tanzania and patas …

…women across the board, including the prevention and treatment of other STDs and substance abuse and access to antiretroviral therapies. AIDS and HIV are two viruses that do not discriminate by age, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, biological sex, or religion. Both of these viruses are completely devastating and deadly. It seems that the only key to combating HIV and AIDS is education of what these two viruses are capable of doing to humans and animals.