Ideas for History teachers
IDEA # 1: Review the History of HIV/AIDS.
Scientists identified a type of chimpanzee in Central Africa as the source of HIV infection in humans. They believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood. Studies show that HIV may have jumped from apes to humans as far back as the late 1800s. Over decades, the virus slowly spread across Africa and later into other parts of the world. We know that the virus has existed in the United States since at least the mid to late 1970s.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatIshiv.html
IDEA # 2: Ask students to identify five major events or advancements in medicine and social services with one of them happening in the last two years by using the websites below:
http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-history.htm (has HIV/AIDS timeline)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/081101_hivorigins
Scientists identified a type of chimpanzee in Central Africa as the source of HIV infection in humans. They believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood. Studies show that HIV may have jumped from apes to humans as far back as the late 1800s. Over decades, the virus slowly spread across Africa and later into other parts of the world. We know that the virus has existed in the United States since at least the mid to late 1970s.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatIshiv.html
IDEA # 2: Ask students to identify five major events or advancements in medicine and social services with one of them happening in the last two years by using the websites below:
http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-history.htm (has HIV/AIDS timeline)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/081101_hivorigins
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