women, this infection can cause PID, which could lead to long term pain, infertility, or sometimes death. AIDS AIDS is caused by human immunodeficiency virus. You can get this from contact through infected blood, semen, or vaginal fluids. If having unprotected sex with someone that has an HIV, you could then get it. By sharing needles or drugs with someone is another way of getting AIDS. AIDS can be spread through vaginal fluids, blood, semen, rectal fluids, and more. By mainly having sex or…
Over many decades, there has always been a question about this. However, the disease’s isolation policy of the past has been based on the lack of knowledge by the general public on its transmission. The stigma around the disease has not helped the massive discrimination towards infected individuals. This discrimination comes in segregation of those infected in quarantined communities. However, this separation is unnecessary because leprosy is not highly contagious. Because of this, people with…
4803 Resource Development Dr. Negron November 2, 2016 A 2014 report from the New York State Department of Health showed that the United States had an estimate of 123,000 people infected with HIV. The HIV and AIDS epidemic continues to affect the African American community. Now HIV and AIDS has a major effect on young African American women. There are risk factors and what seems to be co-occurring issues for young African American women that are identified at-risk for sexually risky behavior.…
The folds of the skin around the armpits, elbows and knees can be a deeper red than the surrounding rash. The peeling of the rash can also indicate the status of the disease, by the end of the first week the skin will begin to peel and flake off, this is referred to as ‘Desquamation’, from Latin ‘desquamare’, meaning ‘to scrape off of a fish’. Sometimes the rash can last up to two full weeks before it fully goes away. (“Britannica.com”), Scarlet Fever -symptoms. Fever, chills, sore throat,…
A waging war between LGBTQ+ advocates and a group of worried general public battle between the passing of the Bathroom Bill. LGBTQ+ advocates see this as an act of discrimination and inequality, as well as a hateful crime towards their identity and comfort, while worried public see it as a gateway for predators to easily prey off the defenseless. Each side holds valued points as to if the Bathroom Bill is preventing of danger towards the weak or an act of discrimination. In general,…
In the Shadow of Ebola is an observatory documentary that focuses on the lives in Liberia under the deadly Ebola attack. Concerning the film’s title, the word “Shadow” implies the serious Ebola leaves problems like deaths, hunger and social disturbances in the vulnerable Liberia. In fact, daily lives’ problems of citizens in different stages of the spread of disease are also addressed. Subjective this first-person narration may be, viewing the event from Urey’s family perspective could be one of…
Since the 1980’s, after the virus that caused AIDS began to spread and gain more attention, medical researchers began to focus their attention to the problem of treating viral infections, some progress in this area has been made. Rather than killing the virus organisms, the antiviral drugs block the…
he was with his life partner Magill and Andrew expressed, he was ready to go. Continuing, the case of Andrew Becket against Wyatt, Waller, Ciphered, and Brown, Andrew seeks counseling only going to several lawyers and was turned down because he had AIDS, and going against a well known law firm was a challenge for any…
It is interesting we are discussing Tuberculosis (TB) since I work in a building which used to be an "Isolation Hospital" in the Hartford area. The morgue is less than a mile away, the tunnels running under my building were used to transport the infected dead to the crematorium. TB in residential facilities is very serious, part of the protocol before admission it to have had a TB test results along with your paperwork. Staff are to be tested for TB every year (for me this is a pain literally…
those authors is Stephen Jay Gould and the other is Susan Bordo. Gould discusses the AIDS epidemic and how it was treated when it was first discovered. Bordo discusses the growing epidemic of eating disorders across the world. They claim these problems can be solved if the main cause is found and I believe that these statements are true, but first we must find the center of the issue. In “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS”, Gould…