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Definition of HIV and AIDS AIDS is ‘ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’ which causes a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy’ (Ho-Yen et al., 2007 ) .   It is usually transmitted from person to person hence the name acquired. On the other hand, HIV is exist, which is an acronym for human immunodeficiency virus that is a prior condition before it turns out to be AIDS if not treated (Casey, K. 2009). There are two known types of the HIV, HIV-1, and HIV-2, that differs genetically and transmission and progression of the illness. HIV-2 is mainly seen in West Africa and it takes harder to transmit it when compared to HIV-1 (Casey, K. 2009). The prevalence is so high that, more than 1.1 million people that are living in the USA is infected by the HIV In today’s world. Statistics have shown that   there is a huge decline of infection in the USA after 2008 (United N., 2014).   Th...

What is a metaphor? The word ‘Metaphor’   means ‘ta carry something across’ or ‘to transfer’ in the Greek language.   Sometimes it could be very useful to not to tell directly what you want to tell. Humans are complex beings and so their brains. Sometimes seeing a movie, can enlighten a person about a current issue, without any intention to do so. In psychological therapy, the counselors use tremendous ways to help the patient to reach their intended positive state of mind. Since it would be really hard to tell some things directly because in some cases the patient will be resisting the idea with his/her psychological defense mechanism. Thus, use of metaphors in the therapeutic setting would have many benefits to the relationship between the counselor and the client. By the use of metaphors or stories, you don’t directly say what you want to say, but instead, you just mean it with different logical clusters of words. It can be a story, it can be a saying like a joke or ...