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A CASE OF THE SIBLING FAMILIES IN ZAMBIA: TRAGEDY OR HOPE? Introduction According to the context depicted in the documentary “Their Bother’s Keepers”, the young sibling families that are orphaned by HIV/AIDS are left vulnerable at a young age. The documentary is shot in Chazanga compound in Lusaka Zambia and it shows the harsh realities of how Doris,Paul and their siblings, Benny and his siblings and Lizzie are victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The oldest siblings are left to take care of the…

lot of flak from many organizations for the same reason. Another criticism of PSI’s campaign was that it only tried to focus on the heterosexual transmission of HIV/AIDS and did not deal with issues like homosexual transmission of HIV and intravenous drug…

from bloodborne pathogens, they can damage many important organs and are spread in many ways. The most common and life threatening bloodborne pathogen is HBV, which we will focus on. Drug injections are the most prominent source of infection for hepatitis, roughly sixty-percent were infected through some kind of drug injection. Hepatitis is also a sexually transmitted disease (STD), meaning hepatitis can be given to another person by sexual means. Roughly fifteen percent of people with hepatitis…

Aids is a very harsh virus that has been terrorizing many people over the last hundred years (“Ethics”). Even with treatment you still have a very slim chance of surviving. If mandatory testing is required, we can find those who are infected and prevent it from spreading. If we catch all the people with AIDS and stop them from spreading it, less and less people will contract the virus. Many people do not even know if they have the virus until later in their life. It is absolutely essential to…

'Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus (AIDS) is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that weakens the immune system , making the body susceptible to and unable to recover from op­portunistic diseases that lead to death' (USAID, 2010, pp.173). It is one of the major challenges for Pub­lic Health and it is the world's leading infectious killer. According to the WHO, 35 million people are living with HIV worldwide. In middle and low income countries is the majority of infec­ted people. In…

Throughout the world HIV and AIDS have affected millions of people. During the 1980s-1990s America suffered from the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that was being ignored by both government officials and health organizations. In fact, policies did not change until the rise of the gay rights activist group, Act Up. David France’s How To Survive a Plague portrays the Act Up’s determination to increase their knowledge on medical research for HIV and AIDS, proving themselves to be fearless in their fight…

1(a). The first scene that caught my attention revolved around a Ugandan woman named Irine Kaliba. Her husband had contracted AIDS by his brother through a blood transfusion. She went to the WHO in Genevia in search for a cure, but when told she could not speak to Dr. Jonathon Mann without an appointment, she broke down in tears. This, in my opinion, was one of the most emotional and effective moments in the film. It showed not only the effects of the virus on the individual itself, but…

For decades, the Philippines have been trying to fight the global crisis on HIV. But the last few years has been alarming as the number of HIV cases has been continuously growing. According to the Philippine Department of Health’s Epidemiology Bureau, in just one month in July, 2015, there were 682 new cases registered, 17% more than the same month the previous year. 94% of them were male and the average age was 27 (I. Gonzales, 2016). In 2008, only 1 person was getting infected daily, and then…

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus responsible for causing AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The virus leaves the human immune system weak and renders infected individuals vulnerable to other illnesses. HIV has been thought to have originated on the African continent and is becoming an increasing medical issue there. The documentary AIDS in Africa details the rise and impact of the rate of HIV infection and AIDS throughout the African continent. In the documentary, various…

non-communicable diseases could be reduced through improved preventive action to improve access to healthcare. (1) This has had a huge impact economically as this money is raised by increasing taxes, our healthcare premiums and what we must pay for prescription drugs. Lack of healthcare has effects on a local as well as global level. As people from areas affected with disease travel the world the bring the disease home to us. As their economy suffers we suffer, as Americans we are compelled to…