Hps 412: Principles Of Epidemiology Summer 2020: Final Project Worth

COVID-19 AND HIV/AIDS: GLOBAL EFFECTS AT A GLANCEAuthor:AffiliationCourse Code: Course title Instructor DateCOVID-19 AND HIV/AIDS: GLOBAL EFFECTS AT A GLANCEDiseases are a common factor of the human society, with infections, deaths and recoveries reported for a number of diseases daily. However, over the course of human history there have been a number of diseases that have had a profound effect on the human population. This effect has generally been a net negative due to the diseases having high virulence and significant contagious capacity. One of common factors for such diseases is the intense effect on human life that leads to disruption of social structures. Outbreaks of diseases such as the Bubonic plague, the Spanish Flu of 1918, HIV/AIDS, and SARS, have resulted in paradigm shifts in global healthcare, medical research, public health, social norms and economic structures and financial performance. One major similarity between the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV/AIDS pandemic revolves around the information on the origin of both diseases. With its epidemiology placing the initial disease occurrences in the Congo, one of the origins theories