Part one of term paper
In 1981 a man in Los Angeles was diagnosed as having a rare form of pneumonia, known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. He had a very low number of T-4 helper cells, and died soon after. The doctors were puzzled at the time, but they would later discover that this was one of the first cases of a disease that would soon plague millions of pa ...

Part two of term paper
... the HIV virus, their immune system shuts down and they become vulnerable to common illnesses. HIV + patients eventually die from a group of unusual diseases called opportunistic infections. Millions of people have already died from AIDS, and many more now have the disease. In the U.S. alone, over 300,000 people have already died from AIDS, and one million others are HIV + (Davis, 6). Millions more will perish from this plague unless a cure is found. Treatment for AIDS is now available, but i ...