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    first major earthquake hit Nepal, which registered a moment magnitude of 7.8 (Rafferty). Both countries, Haiti and Nepal were in dire need of aid relief. Richard…

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    Syndrome, also known as AIDS, has considerably influenced society in Sub-Saharan Africa. The prevalence (the number of people living with AIDS) and the incidence (number of new cases) measurements of the epidemic have slowing been decreasing. In 2002, 5.3 million people, including 189,000 infants were reported having HIV or AIDS (UNICEF, 2016). Statistics have shown that since then the circumstances have changed because as of 2013, only 24.7 million people are living with AIDS and there are…

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    and uses them to make copies of itself and then destroy them. Once HIV destroys so many of these cells your body is unable to fight off infection or disease anymore and when this happen HIV can develop into AIDS which is the final stage of HIV infection. It is possible to never progress to AIDS and this is possible if you seek treatment. Antiretroviral Therapy helps to keep the HIV virus low within your body, this treatment involves taking a specific combination of medicines every day. By…

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    Foreign Aid Issues

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    but it is also the reason for the existence of the United States government’s foreign aid programs, namely the United States Agency for International Development. This is our government freely donating literally billions of dollars every year to troubled nations worldwide. It has been going on for about 50 years now and has escalated to about $50 billions donated total every year. At this point, nearly…

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    Biomedical Model

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    about the Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS) epidemic in the 1980s and the political and social debate towards the cause of the disease, and whether AIDS was truly a disease targeted to homosexual individuals, or whether it would infect anyone (Spelling, Vincent, & Spottiswoode, 1993). This paper will argue for the film about AIDS being related towards the biomedical model. This paper will first discuss the criticism behind the biomedical model and AIDS, relating the film. Lastly, it will…

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    transfusions as well as intravenous drug users. However, safer practices in certain high-risk populations have shifted the focus of the epidemic [20]. It is estimated that 34 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS [21]. Due to an unprecedented burden on social welfare services, these orphaned children are more likely to drop out of schools to earn for survival. This places an enormous social burden on orphaned children. The expanding poverty verty and lack…

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    Irine Kalida Movie Review

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    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…

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    same condition fell to 35% in 2012. Although a large percentage of people still live in poverty, there has been substantial decrease in the percentage of poverty between 1990 and 2012 and improvement can be attributed to foreign development aid.…

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    (HHKIU) is 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…

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    “Silence = Death” and “Women Don’t Get AIDS” looking at art and theatre’s social and political activism and its impact on society. The 1980s were very critical for the AIDS epidemic and there were constantly new discoveries. However, thousands of people were dying due to the lack of accurate information being presented to the public and the slow development of medicine was detrimental to finding effective treatments. This artist strongly shows the importance of AIDS as both social and political…

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