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Some of the obstacles of surrounding vaccination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made eradication of smallpox in the country seem unlikely. These obstacles included a lack of infrastructure/travel, an uncooperative government, and an inability to conduct active surveillance on the amount of individuals vaccinate as well as an issue with detecting cases of smallpox. Many of these issues are akin to those faced by the effort to keep the DRC free of polio.1 In 2017 two confirmed cases…

Existing Problem The existing health problem is the increased rate of chlamydia infections affecting sexually active women under the age of 25. The CDC (2015) has estimated one in 20 sexually active young women aged 14 to 24 years has a chlamydia infection. Women who are infected are at high risk of developing reproductive health problems because chlamydia infections can present without symptoms. The CDC (2011) reported that fewer than half of the people who should be screened receive…

As a Heath Officer, I have been tasked with researching the frequency of HIV/AIDS in my rural area. It is a small population so I will work on both an observational and experimental study design. This will allow me to attempt to understand the spike in incidence of HIV/AIDS as well as work towards isolating the cause and educating the population. For the observational approach, I will work on a cross-sectional survey of the population. A cross-sectional study must include randomly drawn…

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The Rise of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually transmitted disease is among the most common infectious diseases in the world. “They are transmitted by infections that are passed from one person to another during any sexual contact.” (Parenthood) According to WebMD, “more than 65 million Americans have an incurable STD.” (WebMD) It is most common with the ages between 15 and 24. (WebMD) Having unprotected sex, sexual contact with multiple partners, or anyone forced to have sexual…

A new study has been developed in hopes of treating and curing HIV. The main agent is a protein called ZFN that can delete another protein called CCR5. The CCR5 is required for certain types of HIV to enter and infect your T-Cells. T-Cells are white blood cells the body uses to fight HIV, but the most important of these are CD4 T-Cells. HIV is known to infect the CD4+ T-Cells in your blood. The new treatment being studied involves removing white blood cells from the blood that contains CD4+…

word aids, they automatically know it is a deadly virus. The aids virus was one of the most feared viruses in U.S history. The virus made its appearance in the U.S in the 1980’s. More than 70 million people have been affected with aids from the beginning of the epidemic until now. The aids virus and the witchcraft epidemic were to situations in which brutality and misjudgment surfaced in human society. People with aids were treated very badly and as if they did not belong, People without aids…

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most severely affected region, accounting for approximately 71% of all people living with HIV infection (Figure 1) [8]. More than 90% of HIV-infected children in the world currently live in Sub-Saharan Africa [11]. Countries with a high prevalence of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa have witnessed a decline in life expectancy at birth to just below 50 years of age [12]. Kenya is one of the countries severely affected by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa causing infection in 1.6…

City A. Introduction We live in the era of HIV epidemic, and various types of epidemics are seen in the world. New York City (NYC) is one of the city in the United States that has highest prevalence, representing approximately 10 % of national HIV/AIDS prevalence.1 The prevalence rate in NYC is 485.9 per 100,000 person in 2012,2 estimated incidence case in 2012 as 1248,3 and new HIV diagnoses rate in 2011 as 41.6 per 100,000 persons.4 The highest prevalence rate has been seen in Manhattan…

HIV and AIDS With the use of descriptive epidemiology we can explore public health problems that affect individuals and communities. Observational studies focus on assessing the health status of communities and evaluating the outbreak of a new disease or occurrence (Chamberlain University, 2018). One public health problem that has been since the 1980s is HIV/AIDS. This virus is said to have crossed from chimps to humans in the 1920s and is now affecting millions of people all over the world.…