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many pathways. Like AIDS, CC is increasingly recognised as likely to impair governance
and development on local, national and regional scales.
The AIDS epidemic and CC share three other similarities. First is the lag between
impact and infection or in the case of HIV, initiation, and an ecological dimension.
The delay between HIV acquisition and diagnosis has served to obscure individual
and community recognition of the infectious nature of the disease and to foster
community confusion and denial. Similarly, the decades-long gap between the
recognition that the atmospheric concentration of GHG was altering and the evidence
for significant climatic change caused widespread uncertainty, and also
contributed to the powerful forces which deny the reality of CC, and which attempt
to discredit its proponents. Secondly, the HIV epidemic has important inter-generational
social consequences. In some cases the population pyramids of
nations have been altered, with far-reaching consequences.
Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of orphans have been raised by their
grandparents, people in turn whose own children died mainly of AIDS. If these orphans
go on to acquire HIV then the supply of future grandparents will be much diminished,
with uncertain but likely adverse consequences for the human capital as
the upcoming generation will have an insufficient social security network to rely on.
Antibiotic Resistance and its Impact on Persons Living With HIV/AIDS
For more than half a century, antibiotic drugs have ensured that potentially
life-threatening bacterial infections are treatable. Today, however, more and more
bacterial infections fail to respond to antibiotic treatment. A federal task force
recently warned that antibiotic resistance is “a growing menace to all people” and
concluded that if nothing is done, treatments for common infections will become
“increasingly limited and expensive-and, in some cases, non-existent.” Antibiotic
resistance poses a threat to everyone, but people living with HIV/AIDS are at particular
risk.
HIV is a viral rather than bacterial disease, so antibiotics cannot be used to treat
it directly. But because the virus disrupts the body’s own disease-fighting immune
system, antibiotics critical for treating patients infected with HIV. In addition,
many of the therapies used to treat HIV suppress the body’s own infection-fighting
white blood cells. In those persons who do not receive effective treatment
for the HIV virus, the virus generally leads to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(AIDS). AIDS is a fatal disease characterized by numerous bacterial, viral
and fungal infections, certain cancers, nutritional wasting and/or deterioration
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