1. HIV & AIDS

2.  Topic Question: Will AIDS or HIV ever be cured in our lifetime?  Product: Volunteer at the North Carolina Food Bank

3.  Reason: Some of my family is living with AIDS and some have died from the disease

4. ▪ Discovered in 1981  HIV is the first step to getting AIDS  AIDS is one of the top causes of deaths  next to cancer….)

5.  Disease transmitted primarily by unprotected sexual intercourse  Contaminated blood transfusions  Hypodermic needles

6.  No cure  Treatments= kept the immune system healthy  Medications were effective in fighting HIV

7.  Timothy Brown- blood stem cell transplant  Found a Donor with a rare gene mutation resistant to HIV infection  Declared himself cured of AIDS

8.  Successes: finished the paper  Passed first time  Teacher helped with errors I made on paper

9.  2 nd semester  Time management  All the books and websites mostly had the same information

10.  There is proof of a cure  Learned new things  I procrastinate

11.  Always wanted to help people in need like feeding the hungry or donate to find a cure  My product I was able to volunteer and help keep families and the homeless fed

12.  My Product

13.  Thank you for your time  Any Questions?