Aids Essay

diseases (STDs) are infections that are passed from one person to another through sexual contact. The causes of STDs are bacteria, parasites, yeast, and viruses. There are more than 20 types of STDs, including, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, hiv/aids, hpv, syphilis and trichomoniasis. Most STDs affect both men and women, but in many cases the health problems they cause can be more severe for women. If a pregnant woman has an STD, it can cause serious health problems for the baby…

Introduction The movie ‘Outbreak’ came out in cinemas in 1995 shortly after the discovery of the Ebola HF virus in the late 1970s. This movie dramatizes the Ebola HF virus and portrays it as the fictional Motaba virus, it shows in a dramatic Hollywood way how the US would react to a deadly disease outbreak. Of course, being a Hollywood movie there are some facts and many fallacies in the finer, more scientific aspects of the disease. The biosecurity facilities used to control the spread of the…

Cowan and Macklin (2012) and available HIV testing guidelines, PEP should be taken only when source patients are HIV positive or have risk factors for HIV. This discussion examines the ethical issue of exceptions to informed consent related to HIV/AIDS clinical care Ethics is described by Marquis and Houston as a system in which society decides if an individual’s behavior and actions are moral or immoral. Greenberg, Bruess, and Oshwalt (2017) discuss five ethical principles that were created to…

feeling insecure and start to have trust issues. Feeling like you can’t trust your next partner because of your last’s lack of loyalty (Emotional Pain of STD Diagnosis 2015). Many of STDs are curable, however, they are some that aren’t like Herpes, HIV/AIDS and HPV/Warts (Curable Treatable and Incurable STDs 2015). Think about how an individual would feel if they found out that they came in contact with one of these diseases. Due to the lack of knowledge about pregnancy, many teens become…

America the Free Home of the: Stigma Why has the stigma of rape victims not changed in modern society? According to the Encyclopedia of Rape, “rape has always been a part of human culture” (Smith IX). Rape is defined as the unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim or to seize, take, and carry off by force. Even though…

Occasionally, it can imitate acute bacterial meningitis. However, this form of meningitis isn't contagious from person to person. Cryptococcal meningitis is a common fungal form of the disease that affects people with immune deficiencies, such as HIV/ AIDS. It's life-threatening if not treated with an antifungal medication. Meningitis can also result from noninfectious causes, such as chemical reactions, drug allergies, some types of cancer and inflammatory diseases such as sarcoidosis…

social and cultural factors. Social and cultural factors that may affect the rejection of the institution of APCT in the VCSC includes a lack of knowledge within high-risk populations of the need for APCT, negative connotations regarding the screening process, stigmata, fear of the diagnosis of SCCA, and cultural norms. In a study by D’Souza et al. (2013), attitudes and acceptance of APCT were investigated within the MSM population. Results indicated that barriers to APCT included a lack of…

Quite a lot of times I have heard anecdotes of people avoiding STD tests because they're scared of knowing for sure that they have a sexually transmitted disease. They'd prefer to stay in the dark, but while there may have been a twisted logic to this some years ago when little could be done about sexually transmitted diseases, nowadays it makes no sense at all. Some STDs can be cured, and there are ways of managing the symptoms of others to ensure they're barely a hindrance any longer. In the…

transmitted disease (STD). Many people do not take any sexual precaution, so due to this one of the most common STD that is transmitted is Human immunodeficiency virus, or also known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Dallas, 2016). It enters the body attacks the immune system, and then it is too late you did not make the right sexual choice to be safe so now you are contracted with HIV. It is better to be abstinence than to be sexually active and not…

HIV ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus ) What’s HIV? How can it be transmitted? Can it go away? If so, how.? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus,HIV is just like other viruses, like the ones who cause the “flu” and common cold. Over time,humans immune system can kill this bacterias and viruses out of humans bodies, thats not the case with hiv.For some reason the immune system does seem to get rid of the hiv virus.Its known that HIV can, and probably will hide in cells for longs periods of…