Scavenger Hunt II 2. The Texas Heart Institute Dear uncle, you have heart disease so you need to take better care of yourself. You need to seek medical care now so that your health problems do not get worse. Not only do you need to seek out care now, it has to be good-quality care so that you get better. I recommend that you visit the Texas Heart Institute.…
Having HIV is no longer a death sentence now that someone can live a normal life. With recent medications and treatment options, this disease is considered manageable just like any other chronic disease. When HIV was first diagnosed in the world, it was considered a death sentence and the stigma attached brought about social isolation to almost all patients with the diagnosis, today, it is regarded as one of those chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. If I were diagnosed with HIV, my immediate reaction would be shock, surprise, sadness, fear, concern over my future, depression, shame, and isolation. Despite all the shock, if there is someone that would tell me I can still leave a normal life and teaches me how to achieve it, I would go for it quickly in other to be there long enough for my family.…
Aids and Accusation Aids and Accusation, written by Paul Farmer, is a book that truly captures and describes the epidemiology and history of HIV/AIDS in Haiti. Farmer’s immergence into the Haitian community during his research, alongside his educational background as a medical anthropologist and physician, contributed greatly to his approach of providing a deeply holistic understanding of HIV/AIDS in Haiti to the public for the first time (Farmer 2006:253). Through ethnographical, epidemiological and historical data, Farmer shows how the effects of social inequalities, such as racism and poverty, were the main contributors of how the suffering, illness, disease, and violence effects of HIV/AIDS were distributed amongst people in Haiti, and…
Student: Gretel Herrera- Martinez Panther ID: 3339147 " HIV in Miami- Dade County" HIV is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). You can become infected with HIV through the exchange of blood, semen and vaginal secretions with a person infected with the virus, for example by having sex or sharing needles to inject person. Pregnant women infected with HIV can also pass the virus to their babies during birth or through breast milk.…
Thousands Less Could Have Had HIV If you were to randomly line up 100 residents of Washington D.C., you can be assured that about three of them are living with HIV/AIDS. Washington D.C. has had the highest AIDS diagnosis rate in the country for years, and a high percentage of those cases are a result of injection drug use. With those statistics in mind, one would expect implementing a clean needle exchange program to be incontestable. Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is opposed, and made his opposition public during a 1999 Congressional hearing on battling the HIV epidemic.…
Book Report #2: Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe Introduction: Trevor Hoppe in his novel Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness provides a narrative f or how public health has affected those living with HIV throughout HIV’s debut to the public in the 1980s to the present. Hoppe visits the history of how the public health handles disease outbreaks and relates that to how their tactics lead to the stigmatism of HIV and ultimately HIV’s criminalization. Once criminalized, it is dissected how the justice system has managed to criminalize a community of people through illusions of harm and invasion of their private lives. Its criminalization also reveals how race, sexuality, and gender…
This September I return to the saddle in support of the important mission and work of the Southern Tier AIDS Program. Please consider a donation toward this worthy cause. Last year, higher than normal temptures and a nasty head-wind on the back half conspired with under-training to knock me off the course at mile 72ish. It was a humbling experience being pulled off the course and riding in a car past my more fit compatriarts. Taking the lessons learned from last year, the 42 mile course is the goal this year, with the hope that I can push my post-40 body across the finish line and complete what went pear-shaped last year.…
Depression and self-esteem are a major factor in the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS, it effects their mental, physical health, and healing process (Mohite, Mohite, & George, 2015). Due to the fact that these patients already take a massive quanity of medication and do not need to add to this list, other forms of relieving the depression and raising self-esteem, such as education, should be used before giving more medication. Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA (MUCS) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide bilingual and bicultural prevention/education/support services to the Latino community of San Antonio by utilizing culturally and linguistically appropriate familia approach. MUCS is a small agency, located in near downtown San Antonio, Texas. The agency has several programs to support clients and their families, but the program to be evaluated in this paper will be the Road to Success education program.…
We have come to the conclusion that AIDS should have mandatory testing. It would create a much safer environment and it could potentially stop the spreading of AIDS. Some people may think that mandatory testing is an invasion of privacy, but there are ways to work around that. Mandatory testing would also help people that had it not spread it and get medical treatment quickly. In our views the pros just outweighed the cons in every…
The Age of Aids documentary contained many powerful scenes that expose the severity of aids and the political backlash that came with the issue of this new disease. One scene that particularly stuck out to me was a speech by Jerry Falwell who said “I believe when one breaks the laws of nature and the laws or moral decency and i do believe that homosexuality is moral perversion. when we go against nature and god of course is the creator of nature we therefore pay the prices for that.” Bumper stickers that read “ AIDS: it’s killing all the right people” were on cars indicating that government officials and citizens of USA believed that homosexuals deserved to die. The lack of acceptance towards the gay community delayed the scientific research going towards curing AIDS and HIV as the majority of the population believed it was a gay and IV drug-using related disease and had no sympathy to help cure the disease for those who “went against nature.”…
Abstract Most recently, there have been many developments in detection, treatment, educational awareness, and prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In past years, an HIV-positive diagnosis was considered a death sentence. Treatment and management of HIV have advanced and become more efficient at extending life expectancy, despite the fact HIV continues to become an epidemic and life-threatening illness within some communities. Clinicians have ethical concerns and dilemmas that must be considered when clients disclose they are HIV-positive and involved intimately with a partner during a therapy session. HIV-positive clients are faced with several challenges from the primary diagnosis, management of medical treatment, the disclosure…
I am not a big proponent for speaking in broad, generalized terms or projecting my own beliefs and values onto the rest of the world. Therefore, in this short essay I’m going to focus on issues that I have a strong emotional connection with based on my own experiences. Nevertheless, these are all issues I believe represent the way our social structure is changing directly due to technology and the immense information it provides. Specifically, the issues I want to concentrate on are the apathy to major issues, the general attitude of the “post-millennial” generation, and invisible illnesses. We are constantly bombarded with tragedies.…
From reading this article, I was able to gain a lot of insight of why people may not take their medications as prescribed. From prior knowledge, I would have said that the main reasons are due to not understanding the value of taking the medicine or wanting to avoid side effects. One reason highlighted in the article was the stigma attached with taking certain types of medications. The specific disorder mentioned in the article was epilepsy, but many other diseases are stigmatized such as depression and anxiety. I think it is really sad that people feel this way.…
Human Papillomavirus Human Pappilomavirus, more commonly known as HPV, is a group of over one hundred and fifty viruses. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection. Almost all sexually active men and women will contract HPV at some point in their life. It infects the genitals of men and women, can cause warts and cancer. Cervical cancer is generally associated with HPV.…
"If you knew I was HIV positive would you still treat me as an equal, would you still be my friend, would you still touch me, would you still love me?” These are some of the thoughts that go through the minds of the millions of people worldwide who are currently living with HIV/AIDS. Despite the mass impact of the disease, many still remain ignorant to its definition, history, and effects, leading to the negative associations of those affected. I’m here to give you a brief enlightenment of HIV/AIDS in an effort to to lessen the misconceptions and stigma of HIV/ AIDS. First, we need to understand the basics.…