First aid

A 2006 study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that among U.S. high schools, eighty-seven percent taught abstinence while only eleven percent taught safe sex (Abiona, 2012). Statistics shows teens are having more sex, so regarding that information safe sex education should be reinforced. In 2012, The Guttmacher Institute released data and information that sex education not only helps young adults delay intercourse, but also has a positive impact on other decisions when…

Summary of: Sex Trading and Psychological Distress Among Women on Methadone El-Bassel, Nabila; Simoni, Jane M.; Cooper, Daniel K.; Gilbert, Louise; Schilling, Robert F. Reading Area Community College Summary of: Sex Trading and Psychological Distress Among Women on Methadone In person interviews conducted on 280 preselected women (mean age of 40) discovered that 32% had been involved in the trade of sex for money or drugs in the prior year (El-Bassel, Simoni, Cooper, & Gilbert, 2001). This…

CLWHA during 2014, as compared to approximately 80 children in Australia during 2013 (Miller, Ziefgler, & Palasanthiran, 2013; UNICEF, 2015). With HIV prevalence in Uganda estimated at 1,500,000 people, and an estimated 650,000 children orphaned by AIDS in 2014, HIV has had a significant impact on society through the need for child labor (UNICEF, 2016). Child labor impacts the future development opportunities for society, due to generations missing education opportunities (Muhumuza, 2015).…

Children’s growth and development are fast when they grow. It is important to regular check children’s growth and development in order to find or prevent problems. The regular well child visit can prevent illness by scheduled immunization, track growth and development, raise concerns, counsel behaviors issues, nutrition, exercise, and unintentional injury, and build trust relationship among pediatrician, parents, and child (Lin, 2015). For adolescent, hormones trigger rapid and profound physical…

The HIV virus came from near the equatorial West Africa, originating from a native chimpanzee that had been hunted for its meat. Chimps carried what was called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)(3). SIV ran through the blood stream of these chimps and as humans came into contact with the blood they became exposed to the original disease. After some time human systems mutated the SIV virus into HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The virus travels through the body by accompanying the bodily…

untreated, HIV can develop into Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). A person with AIDS has an immune system so badly damaged, that they become vulnerable to opportunistic infections. If the body’s T cell count has fallen below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood they have progressed into AIDS. One can also be diagnosed with AIDS if they have gotten two or more opportunistic infections (aids.gov). Without treatment, people with AIDS can live for about three years. But opportunistic…

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…

Book Report #2: Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe Introduction: Trevor Hoppe in his novel Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness provides a narrative f or how public health has affected those living with HIV throughout HIV’s debut to the public in the 1980s to the present. Hoppe visits the history of how the public health handles disease outbreaks and relates that to how their tactics lead to the stigmatism of HIV and ultimately HIV’s…

Introduction Legionnaires’ Disease is a kind of common pneumonia and caused by bacteria, Legionella Pneumophila. Legionnaires’ Disease becomes more and more in recent years in Hong Kong. Background information The first outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease happened in 1976 which found in Philadelphia in the United States and caused 34 people to die. It is an acute bacterial disease, its incubation period is 2-10 days. Thus, the most common transmission of Legionella are disseminate sprays and…

parts of the world or to have many partners that they are sexually active with; however, that is not me. I am torn because of the constant battle going on in my head. I feel hopeful because HPV can be treated, but is could still lead to cancer and even AIDS. How can I live my whole life knowing the limitation that are resting on my shoulder and being aware of…