Heatlth and Disease

More and more people of today seem to realize that a good health menas longer and happier life. Therefore they take a better care of their health than before. They eat health food, practise different kinds of sports. A healthy, strong and beautiful body is an ideal of majority of people and not only of the young ones. It is not so very difficult, if you live in a develop country with a highly developed welfare szstem and good conditions for health care. ut if you live in a country of the Third !orld where still too many people have cholera, typhus and malaria, then you see the problem of health in a different light. The programme of the !orld "elath #rganization includes organizing international medical conferencies, the development of welfare szstems especially in the countries of the Third !orld, the prevention and inspection of illnesses. A great part of medical research is realized on the basis off cooperation and coordination among different countries, more recently, especially the research of cancer and AI$%. AI$% is one of the most serious diseases which threaten people nowadays. It is the viral disease that impairs the immune system of the human body, which thus can get any infection. Those infections which are not dangerous for people with normal immune system may be mortally dangerous for AI$% patients. AI$% was first identified in the &%A in '()'. There are about '* million people infected. +irst AI$% patient were all homose,uals, later AI$% was identified among intravenous drug abusers, hemophiliacs and other persons, who had received blood transfusion, women whose partners had AI$%, and children of these people. AI$% is caused by a virus which was named "I-.'. The virus damages the immune system of the human body by infectingwhite blood cells. The syptoms of AI$% are/ fatigue, weakness, diarrhea, weight loss, infection of the mouth... 0ormal everyday contact with an infected person is safe. 1ou cannot catch the virus by touching objects used by infected person/ cups, glasses, toilet seats... %wimming pools are also safe. The virus itself is not very strong. It does not survive in the open air and cannot withstand the heat. The chief means off transmission of the virus are se,ual intercourse with AI$% partner. The cure vaccine for AI$% has not yet been discovered. Many couintries of the world spend a lot of money trying to find a cure. There are large publicity campaigns all over the world telling people all about AI$%. Advertisements in newspaper, on television and in the streets warn of the danger. There are telephone numbers to call if people want more information or advice.