A powerpoint presentation on HIV/AIDS useful for nursing, Health education, science, medicine, allied medical professionals and students.

1. Presented By- Dr. Satya K. Gutta MBBS Dr. Krishna Mohan Gopisetty BDS Course # 637, McNeese State University “ No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.” - Colin Powell

3. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act ( Ryan White Care Act , Ryan White , (enacted August 18, 1990) was an Act of the U.S. Congress named in honor of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a tainted hemophilia treatment in 1984, and was expelled from school because of the disease. White became a well-known advocate for AIDS research and awareness, until his death on April 8, 1990. http://www.avert.org/aids-photo-gallery.php?photo_id=431&gallery_id=7

4. German Professor Harald zur Hausen (left), French Professor Luc Montagnier (centre) and virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (right) were awarded Nobel Prizes for Medicine on October 6, 2008

8. Sex of adults and adolescents with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2006 Transmission categories of adults and adolescents with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2006 http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm

9. http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/stateprofiles/Louisiana/Louisiana_Profile.htm

54. “ I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.” Paul Farmer “ Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.” Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS