Pneumocystis pneumonia

Wrong!” The Ethics of Culturally Competent Care” by Jacqueline Ortiz and Donna Casey, the authors discussed a case about a young woman from Haiti who was diagnosed with HIV with a co-morbidity diagnosis for worsening case of renal function and pneumocystis pneumonia. Within the article, the authors discussed the cultural and linguistic barriers, ethical issues, and the determining capacity through the barrier of the culture its implications of the surrogate decision maker and the nursing…

On August 19, 1992, at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, Mary Fisher gave an influential speech ironically titled “A Whisper of AIDS” in order to bring awareness of the AIDS virus and the effect it has on its victims. Fisher was able to successfully achieve her goal of bringing the AIDS epidemic to the attention of the public by using powerful rhetorical appeals to establish her presence and engage the attention of her audience to increase concern for the AIDS pandemic. In “A…

On June 5, 1981, the Centers of Control Disease and Prevention (CDC) published the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), about a rare lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in five gay men, living in Los Angeles (HSRA). This was the first case of what would be later known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS), now a widely spread disease. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) protested outside the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 11, 1988, to…

From the Lecture: 1. Only one hospital with only one dedicated flor for AIDS patients sounds so cruel. Unfortunately, our society have less value for some groups of people. I am sorry that your friend had to experience such pain. Since i don’t know much about the issue, almost everything surprised me, but at the same time I was able to make sense with some of the new materials I learned, because so many things occur like a pattern. For example, “Black men are disproportionately impacted by HIV…