Humanitarian aid organizations

. What experiences, if any, have you had doing event planning for individuals or organizations? -I have been in many student organizations such as my school 's past GSA, literary magazine, and art club, and helped in planning a multitude of events spanning from creating contests for students to be able to interact with the organization to full on events wiht food, music, and different tables filled with activities for people to enjoy. I mostly have worked in partnership with at least of a…

advancement to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) refer to a retroviral infection that interferes with the human immune system, increasing a person’s risk for contracting common infections like Tuberculosis, opportunistic infections, and cancers that rarely affect others with unaltered immune systems. HIV is acquired through unprotected sex, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from infected mother-to-child. Although HIV/AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980’s,…

Despite early failures that dismissed gene therapy as a viable means to treat disease and genetic disorder, decades of research have resulted in the development of safe and effective vectors, methods of targeting particular types of cells, and techniques to minimize and manage immune responses. In the process, scientist now know more about the disease-causing genes themselves than ever before, paving the way for the development of successful gene therapy treatments. As of now, people have been…

HIV and The Immune System By Lachlan Evans What is HIV? HIV otherwise know as human immunodeficiency virus, if this virus is left untreated it can cause the disease of aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). HIV is one of the many incurable diseases; this means that once you have HIV, you will have it until you die. At this moment there are no safe and effective cure for HIV. The human immune system cannot destroy it due to HIV affecting specific cells of the immune system, called CD4 cells…

The book, The Origin of AIDS, by Jacques Pepin unveiled a new perspective on the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. I really appreciated Pepin’s scientific background as an infectious disease physician, and an epidemiologist. This background allowed for me see how a medical professional of his expertise would look at the situation as a whole. A couple tactics I was not fond of, however, was the trivial information Pepin’s included throughout his book. This information did not give a deeper meaning…

foreign aid is how bad it is in providing assistance to the developing countries. The readers get to learn that foreign aid creates dependency and makes the people in the developing countries not seek employment for themselves. Thus, because they cannot seek employment, they cannot earn a respectable living. The readers do not get to learn how foreign aid assists people in the developing countries eradicate poverty and create equality. Deaton could have told the readers that foreign aid is not…

advocate saving the lives of black men though research, policy, education, and training. While some people may disagree that The National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC) does not promote social change and this issue is not important, this organization uses effective strategies to challenge institutions and reinforce positive social behavior and relations.…

before? Have you been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS? This terrible syndrome can make you feel so isolated that even your own parents shun you. Mainly passed around by doing drugs or through sex. Many famous people have been diagnosed with this disease and have died because there is no cure. HIV/AIDS is known for making people feel isolated in American society. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS is a very serious matter and is…

may result from doing, the great good must result from saying” (Boylan, 2002, 144). The newspaper circulated “twenty thousand copies” to readers in “several states” (Boylan, 2002, 144). This allowed for their views to influence other people and organizations across New…

Fixing a Problem: AIDS The book Nine Hills to Nambonkaha covers a number of different elements that are present in Africa. It teaches the reader of what life is like in Ivory Coast; it portrays a picture far different than what we are used to as Americans. The book speaks of a resilient village called Nambonkaha; things are good in Nambonkaha, but certainly not perfect. The village is without, and therefore seeks, electricity and other basic commodities that we take for granted in the Unites…