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violence from the curriculum it enabled me to make that judgement. As I continually practice doing case study assignments I’m learning how to integrate what I’m learning with instinct. I was also introduced to the curriculums on Domestic Violence and HIV/Aids. The domestic violence curriculum educated me more on what it was the effects and strategies on how to assist clients through it. CUCE services batterers as well as victims. I learned about another from that should be added to a client’s…

changing than joining the Peace Corps, and it isn't just your life that you are changing. By joining the Peace Corps you are bringing aid to the millions across the world that need it, gaining important leadership skills, and strengthening the bonds across the entirety of the international community. The Peace Corps is one of many organizations dedicated to bringing aid to those in need, but they have been doing it longer than most. They have been at it for more than 50 years, during which…

and ignorance. Sufferers of HIV/AIDS were at the mercy of their unknown affliction and were being completely ignored or discriminated against by their families, their peers, and their governments. Much like the March on Washington, rallies for women’s suffrage, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, it was time to make a statement that would demonstrate the severity of the cause and hopefully generate attention and concern for those suffering with AIDS. ACTUP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power,…

Research Question: How do education programs like "Me to We" work against their own purpose either intentionally or inadvertently, for community development? Foreign aid to developing nations for decades has resulted in further dependence as oppose to independence as predicted by the forces instituting the aid. The “Me to We” charity’s educational program acts as a source of alleged development, however, despite its appearance of positive development it acts to exploit and subject’s…

Since the country started off being poorly equipped for possible natural disaster damage, the country is open to certain requirements, such as acquiring a large amount of debt and creating policy changes that the international aid agencies recommend. Because the effected country is so desperate for help, it can be prone to being negatively affected by “developed” countries. (Klein 7) This key term relates to class because it is related to the politics of knowledge, in which foreign…

a behavioral skills-based intervention designed for gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) men. HHKIU was first implemented in a field study at the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP), an API gay and bisexual HIV/AIDS agency in San Francisco, California. HHKIU has demonstrated significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. The success of this program is based on culturally…

beautiful landscapes, Nigeria has a total of almost 82 million people calling it home. (Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ,2016). Nigeria, which is home to over 250 different ethnic groups, has one of the highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevalence, which greatly impacts the lives of all living there (Answers Africa, 2016). HIV/AIDS is one of the most prevalent diseases in Nigeria with millions of people suffering from the disease.…

For Nigerian women, their stigmatisation arises from HIV’s association with undesirable behaviours (Akanbi, 2010, p. 3210). Assumptions of promiscuous sexual behaviour are made about these female people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), therefore encouraging a discriminatory judgement that these women are therefore to blame for their status (Nwanna, 2010, p. 90). A similar phenomenon is evident towards HIV-positive women in the United States. In many cases, it is the male…

The grim outlook of HIV has changed over the past thirty years from the early days of the infectious disease. Through massive research and modern medicine, HIV is no longer a death sentence but now a livable condition. However, the demographics and psychosocial implications still remain pretty much the same with a few small differences. Identifying HIV has become more transparent than when it was first diagnosed. Over the years, it has been discovered that people with HIV are susceptible to…

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in sub-Saharan Africa. Through out the first three chapters, Livingston discusses the history, conditions, and stories of Botswana's oncology ward that dramatize the human stakes and intellectual and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will…