Abstract
Every disease affects a life of an individual to a certain extent, but there are some diseases that affect the whole human society. Among these diseases counts a pandemic of an HIV infection.
Around 60 million people have suffered from this disease for nearly 40 years and it was fatal for a large percentage of them. Although, a drug has not been discovered that could cure patients completely, thanks to an antiviral treatment, a high mortality has been at least stopped, and therefore HIV-positive patients can live quality lives with the antiviral treatment.
In the Czech Republic at the end of March 2019, 3,429 HIV-positive persons were diagnosed, and the specialised treatment takes place in eight departments throughout the Czech Republic. Today, the treatment in the Czech Republic is at a very high level.
But was it also in the past? In the 1980's, the HIV infection was first presented here as a contagion in the Western world of capitalism. Nevertheless, the first expert group of doctors was established in the Na Bulovce Hospital in 1983, this group should eventually reveal the first such diseases.
In the Czechoslovak Republic, it happened in 1984, when the first two cases were laboratory-diagnosed. The number of the patients gradually increased, and a first AIDS centre was established in the Na Bulovce Hospital, at the Clinic of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropical Diseases.
In the long term, the outpatient and inpatient part of this AIDS centre has been and still is the largest department for the treatment. On nurses, who treat these patients, are often placed great demands.