Immunodeficiency

Registered Nurses on Workplace Hazards: A Challenge to Face Most people in their average everyday life believe that registered nurses (RNs) do not have difficulties and that it is set as an easy career. However, a few statistics from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have proven that up to 5.6 million out of the 12.2 million registered nurses suffer from occupational bloodborne pathogens. In addition, between the years of 2012 and 2014 violence in the registered nurses…

doctor. Poor nutrition, poor sanitation systems and inadequate health services have led to poor health in the country. Haiti’s life expectancy at birth is 63 years for women and 58 years for men. Haiti has one of the highest incidences of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome…

Brandy Lauder broke a toe and had to get orthopedic surgery to get it repaired. She was then prescribed antibiotics for ten days. The antibiotics depleted the bacteria that kept Clostridium difficile under control, which caused her to get a debilitating infection. She first got diarrhea and then went into shock. Her intestines swelled up and she had to get surgery to give room to her swollen and blood-deprived organs. The bacterium that caused her infection was Clostridium difficile. The…

The definitive diagnosis is through an acid fast stain of the bacteria in a lab, obtained through multiple sputum cultures and a chest x-ray showing abnormalities of the lungs. There is antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis but the bacteria is very drug resistant due to the stiff structure of the cell wall and as a result, the antibiotic course is long and sometimes dangerous due to serious side effects. The most common antibiotics used to treat TB are isoniazid and rifampicin for a minimum of…

sewn together by their loved ones. Marches were held for all the people that lost their lives, and candlelight’s (www.aidsquilt.org, 2015). Jones had planned for larger memorials for these individuals. IN 1986, AIDS was officially called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). After this call, parents and schools started talking about more open discussions on HIV and wanted to educated more people about the deathly…

The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world (Wilper et al., 2009). Research indicates that the United States prison population has reached an all-time high (Wilper et al., 2009). In 2012 alone, 1 in every 35 adults were in either jail or prison (Aufderheide, 2014). According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the highest number of inmates to date are incarcerated for drug offenses. Although, prisoners may have committed crimes, prisoners have constitutional…

One in every six individual in the United States is unaware of their body’s contraction to an infection. An infection so dangerous, researchers have not found a cure for it yet. 1.1 million People in America are contracted with this virus and an average age range is just the young age of 13. Within the last two decades the HIV virus has become the largest scope of infection across the globe. With the number of infected people on the rise, it is important to understand how to cope with a disease…

Introduction: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its 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.…

Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Schools The sexual health education offered in schools across the globe ranges from complete avoidance of the topic to AO (abstinence only) education to CSE (comprehensive sexual education) and the relative merits of different programs are hotly debated. The central focus of AO programs is the message that sexual activity should be avoided until marriage, while CSE programs typically include factual information about how to prevent pregnancy and STIs…

unfortunate consequence is the decline in herd immunity. This frequently manifests as outbreaks in certain communities, and not only the children whose parents refused vaccinations, but also in those children who cannot be vaccinated due to age or immunodeficiency” (Rudrefer and Krilov 2). In order to fully protect society from a serious epidemic occurring, the majority of those who can physically get vaccinated need to in order to protect those who cannot. The links between the MMR (measles,…