HIV/AIDS is it more than disease ?

Question

i have seen movie mission impossible-2 of actor Tom cruise

are both inter-related ?

Answer 1

it is a serious public health challenge

highly communicable disease

that's most imp

Answer 2

This is more of a philosophically-related question regarding HIV and AIDS as opposed to a medically-related one if I'm not mistaken.

I believe that what you are trying to ask is whether HIV and/or AIDS is more than just a disease or it has a global impact such that, on a greater scale, it can cause mass scare and epidemiological problem. In MI:2, the code names for both the infectious disease and the cure to the said disease were Chimera and Belerophon (if my spelling and the sequence are correct), respectively. It was noted in the movie that just a single carrier (Thandie Newton being "Typhoid Mary") is enough to trigger an infection rate that surpasses even the easily-transmittable diseases (like cold or flu), such that an epidemic and, sooner than later, a pandemic would result--the cure, of course, will be hoarded by the people behind the initiation of such an event.

In comparison to such a situation, HIV and/or AIDS are not yet near such a catastrophic situation, since the mode of transmission of HIV is pretty limited, although there are a number of ways to get infected. However, transmission of HIV is not as fast or easy as catching cold or flu, primarily due to the nature of the viral organism and the pathology of the disease itself. In relation to an epidemic or a pandemic, HIV, although a globally-challenging disease, does not pair up or is not on par with, say, the bubonic plague, again due to the limited mode of transmission and therapeutic intervention.

There are, however, relations between the "imaginary disease" in MI:2 and HIV, in that the ingeniusness of how the former is transmitted could be utilized for the latter, making HIV a potentially deadly epidemic...again, therapeutic intervention will be at play, since anti-retrovirals are being manufactured to control the viral infection rate. What would be a worse case scenario is that the new viral strain of HIV is capable of resisting the effects of anti-retrovirals, even the new ones, if genetic mutations could be self-manipulated by the virus itself--something everyone is not yet ready for, both medically and psychologically.

Answer 3

HIV becomes AIDS when the CD4 count gets very low, around 200. Some, consider the HIV to have progressed to AIDS when the count is 250. Most people do not start out with a diagnosis of AIDS, but a diagnosis of the HIV virus being positive.