Aids Essay

providing clean needles in exchange for dirty needles to injection drug users (IDUs). Other necessary supplies are also provided such as alcohol wipes, tourniquets, other sterile injection equipment and condoms (National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors, 2012). Comprehensive programs link the IDUs to educational materials, HIV and Hepatitis C screenings, substance…

individuals with the infection, they do have things such as videos and treatment plans available to people who have become infected and ways to cope with the idea that the disease will never go away. There is no cure or vaccination against HIV and AIDS however there are ways to protect you from getting the infection not only HIV but other sexually transmitted diseases and a healthier lifestyle. Stated above, knowing your body and how it reacts to certain instances like contracting diseases is…

Sex education remains one of the most critical areas of discussion among teenagers. However, the topic presents challenges especially where the community’s culture is rather conservative. In this case, sex education is considered “too much” for teenagers. This discussion aims at exploring into the topic from the perspective of two articles. In the comparative analysis section, the topic of sex education is brought into perspective based on each article. It is found that the authors of both…

the HIV/AIDs epidemic in the United States, minorities have been disproportionately affected and represent the majority of people newly infected and living with the disease.1,2 To illustrate, there are more than 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the US but 506,000 of these people are black.3 In 2010, blacks accounted for 44% of new HIV infections and Hispanics/Latinos accounted for 21% of the new HIV infections compared to whites.4 In an effort to mitigate the burden of HIV/AIDS,…

There are over 36 million people around the world living with HIV today. The human immunodeficiency virus attacks and destroys CD4 cells or T-cells that are meant to protect your body from infections. HIV transmission can spread through contact with blood, pre-seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, rectal fluid, semen, or breast milk from anyone infected with HIV. In the early stages of HIV, the symptoms are very similar to other illnesses like flu. This makes it extremely difficult to detect if you have…

Dominic Davis Mr. Dan Stout The 330/Block 5 8 May 2017 Contraception and the Catholic Church The Catholic Church teaching on the use of contraception is inappropriate, unjust, and immoral. Contraception, also known as birth control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy. Methods of contraceptives range from sterilization techniques such as vasectomies, tubal ligation, implantable birth control, hormone based methods such as oral pills, vaginal rings, patches, all the way to the…

It is amazing that Christian schools have high rates of STDs, pregnancies, and abortion but no one wants to talk about it, or better yet, find other ways than just saying “Be abstinent or celibate” to prevent them. There are other issues on campuses than retention rates, graduation rates, the teaching ability of faculty and staff, and others. I am not saying that those are not important, because they are. I am just saying that it is important we focus on the whole part of the campuses including…

world country. This ultimately creating a domino effect because with overpopulation even greater problems may arise such as lack of resources or the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV or AIDS. According to National AIDS Organization estimated 2.39 million people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in India and that 130,000of these people have died from the illness(Recorded in 2010). Lack of education also hinders a woman 's chances to obtain a job, as only 17 percent of women are employed…

The definition of a patient zero is the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak or related cases. In other words patient zero is the first person aware to the world of a disease. With the information received from the NPR RadioLab podcast episode “Patient Zero - Updated” the conclusion can be made that the more information society gains about diseases and their origins, fear and anxiety about the unknown grows. The first disease discussed in the…

barrier at least three isolated times. This gave rise to the three subgroups of the virus, identified by differences in the envelope region, M, N, and O, with group M, which stands for major, being the most common of all and thought to be cause of the AIDS pandemic. Studies of the genetic code of the virus indicated that the most recent common ancestor of group M of HIV-1 dates back to the early 1900s and this lead some to link the epidemic with the rise of colonialism and growth of cities in…