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Healthy People 2020’s goal is to, “Prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and related illness and death” (2014, p. 1). Specific goals to reduce new HIV infections are; “reduce the number of new HIV diagnoses, reduce the number of new HIV infections among adolescents and adults, and reduce the rate or HIV transmission among adolescents and adults.” According to the Healthy People 2020 objective HIV-1 reduce new HIV infections, the Healthy People 2020 target is 32,855 persons and the…

In the United States, 5 million patients are transfused every year, receiving approximately 14.6 million units of blood.1 Orthopedic and cardiac surgeries are associated with high blood volume loss and account for 10% and 20% of all erythrocyte transfusions, respectively.2,3 Additionally, cancer patients undergoing malignant tumor resection often require transfusions due to chronic blood loss.4 Although improved detection methods have significantly reduced the risk of acquiring blood-borne…

cause of preventable transmission of blood-borne diseases in the United States. Within this realm, it is the common practice of sharing previously used needles that makes IV drug users more susceptible to contracting diseases such as Hepatitis C and HIV. In recent years across the United States and worldwide, a method of controlling dirty needle-sharing has been to provide access to clean needles and syringes, regardless of the intended use. Although the nation has an estimated 289 000 heroin…

HIV origin has been debated by researchers since the virus was found in the 1980s. The virus attacks the body’s immune system and weakens the immune system. The first case of HIV came from “a blood sample taken in 1959 from a man living in what is now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo” (Sharp 1). HIV is similar to the virus Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), this virus weakens the immune system of apes and monkeys.“HIV-1 is closely related to a strain of SIV found in sooty…

mechanism we observed in vitro faithfully reflects the real HIV pathogenesis in vivo, we used two models, a co-culture model where OLs are cultured on top of a mixed glial layer and a brain aggregate model where dissociated progenitors acquired from mice or human fatal tissues were supplied with serum and allowed to aggregate spontaneously. Co-culture of neurons and mixed glia have been used to study the synergistic toxic effects of HIV-1 Tat and morphine on neurons (Zou et al., 2011b). In this…

Overview Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) is a common condition caused by a type of herpes virus. Once contracted, CMV stays in the body for the rest of a person’s life. It is spread through direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as saliva, blood, semen, and urine. While the virus can also be spread to a baby through a mother’s breast milk, it does not usually sicken the child. The majority of patients do not even realize they have been infected. CMV is unusual in that the infection…

During my time studying the Aids conspiracy I found a lot of recorded events that could have been connected with the United States actually creating the Aids Virus. With this conspiracy around a lot of factors play into how others and myself for an opinion on this controversial subject such as how the human brain works, what type of research you conducted, and conspiracy theory itself. All of these thing come into play the help for my theory as to what exactly happened with the Aids virus and if…

The needle exchange programs, a harm reduction process, were created to reduce the spread of bloodborne diseases, including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Frequent drug users are a cost to society in health care, the spread of disease among people or offspring can be costly. The cost of health care to the patients, the supply and distribution of the needles and running the NEPs show great figures. The NEPs are funded by the state Department of Health. The limited quantity of needles…

Zika has become popular in Alabama. Zika is a virus that has different modes of transmission. The most common mode of transmission is by Aedes species mosquito (Alabama Department of Public Health, 2018). Mosquitos are more common in Alabama during summer months and look for sites with water to lay eggs in and multiply. A mosquito will bite a person that is infected with Zika and spread the disease by biting another person. Zika is also spread by sex, mother to child, blood transfusion, and lab…

third hypothesis Pepin breaks down revolves around the life and actions of a Russian named Serge Voronoff. Vronoff’s eccentric practice of transplanting primate chimpanzee into humans is postulated to have facilitated the transformation of SIV into HIV-1. Voronoff emigrated to France at the age of 18 and attended the Paris School of Medicine. In 1895, he became a French citizen and traveled to Cairo, which was under French rule, to become a surgeon and build a reputation for himself. Voronoff…