HIV/AIDS

Introduction Healthcare providers in the rural areas of the U.S., like the rest of the nation, are dependent on evidenced based practice literature to supplement their practice. The cost to provide the “brick and mortar” type access to nationalized databanks is an added expense to the restricted budget present is many communities. According to Carter-Templeton & Wu, having access and skill to utilized mobile medical applications (MMA) on personal devices makes the required information…

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) was declared global emergency by The World Health Organization in 1993. It is an airborne bacteria that basically affects the lungs, it can be spread when a person with the active TB sneezes or coughs. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death among curable infectious diseases worldwide. In TB in the US-Mexico Border Region remains a serious public health problem. It is one of the most serious problems along the border; this is due to first, the abundance of…

instruction on sexually transmitted diseases as well. All other states may or may not offer sexual education to their teens. Furthermore, a report conducted by the Guttmacher institute found 93% of teenagers received formal instruction on STI and HIV/AIDs and 84% were also taught abstinence. However, when it came to methods of contraception and having safe sexual intercourse, one-third of teens who had received a formal sexual education did not learn about any forms of contraception. In…

Prostitution is a controversial topic of discussion in today’s society. There are many aspects in a community that are directly impacted and correlated with prostitutes, or street workers. Prostitution has affected our society through human and sex trafficking, rape, spread of sexually transmitted infections, and assaults. There are many perspectives that people develop when it comes to this topic. On one hand, people believe this profession, that women and men alike choose, is unethical and…

it means more money, in order to reduce the time on the street, and thus the likelihood of being arrested. As a result, sex workers become more vulnerable to pressure to not use condoms, thereby increasing their risk of contracting STDs, including HIV.” If prostitution was legalized cops wouldn’t have to roam the streets looking for them but instead putting all that effort into an actually crime. Opponents argue that it doesn’t matter if prostitution was legalized, if there is scarcity men and…

normally an extra or small course that’s only taught for a few days, with no tests or quizzes to ensure that the student pool has taken it in. But even worse are the state laws surrounding Sex Ed, the fact is, only 22 states require sex ed, 33 require HIV/AIDS information, and only 19 states require that if sex ed is taught, it must be medically…

The topic of sex in today’s society is something that the majority of our youth is uncomfortable to talk about. Sex is something that is completely normal but yet is not treated as so in our education system. Teachers are required to teach certain levels of math that comes with a curriculum, but on an everyday basis how frequently is this information being put to use? Not very often. Sexual education needs to be taught accurately, efficiently, and appropriately with a required curriculum in all…

Shy is a fourteen-year-old girl, and she believes she is absolutely and really in love with her sixteen year old boyfriend. Her boyfriend, unfortunately, only wants one thing from her: sex. He has threatened her to break up with her if she does not have sex with him, and she really is truly considering doing it. She is very young and just started developing, but she’s already feeling the pressure of what she feels she needs to do to keep her relationship together. Only, she does not have to. She…

Young people and the elderly are at a higher risk of developing septic arthritis. A person with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), diabetes, or a chemotherapy recipient with a poor immune system can easily acquire septic arthritis due to the immune system not being able to get rid of bacteria or viruses in the bloodstream. Someone with a recent surgery or injury to a joint,…

another announcement stating that he had been HIV positive for 6 years and keeping it in control. 8. Chuck Panozzo. Chuck Panozzo broke fans’ hearts when he announced that he was guy and living with HIV and AIDS in 2001. Since then, he became an active person in the promotion of AIDS awareness. 9. Danny Pintauro. The last time we see Danny Pintauro is on a 2015 episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now and it was also during that time where he revealed that he had HIV. He was diagnosed in 2003. 10.…