HIV: A Communicable Disease HIV‚ Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ is a communicable disease that was once considered a death sentence years ago. It is a disease that is contracted by the exchange of bodily fluids such as blood‚ semen‚ and vaginal secretions. Persons can be affected by the disease for years without knowing it. To date‚ blood tests that pick up the antibody is the only way of detecting it. Patients may be asymptomatic‚ which means the disease is present‚ however‚ symptoms
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TEST BANK / ASSESSMENT PACKAGE to accompany McWhorter Academic Reading Fifth Edition Kathleen T. McWhorter Niagara County Community College Jeanne M. Jones New York Boston San Francisco London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal NOTE REGARDING WEB SITES AND PASSWORDS: If you need a password to access instructor supplements on a Longman book-specific Web site‚ please use the following information: Username: Password: awlbook
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studies below and answer the questions that follow in two short essays that will be submitted as one deliverable. Case Study #1 Ms. A. is an apparently healthy 26-year-old white woman. Since the beginning of the current golf season‚ Ms. A has noted increased shortness of breath and low levels of energy and enthusiasm. These symptoms seem worse during her menses. Today‚ while playing in a golf tournament at a high‚ mountainous course‚ she became light-headed and was taken by her golfing partner to
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1. What should we do with children who abuse their siblings? What if the perpetrator is 8 years old and has molested his 5 year old sister? What if the perpetrator is 12 years old and molested his 6 years old sister? There may be many reasons why children abuse their siblings. However‚ if a child is physically‚ emotionally‚ or sexually abusing his siblings‚ the child should receive counseling services to determine the underlying reasons for the abuse. Our textbook points out some causes of sibling
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result of the 1936 passage of Social Security and the 1965 passage of Medicare‚ they have been considerable improvements in the lot of the elderly‚ a population conventionally defines as those or older. A 1988 census report indicated that if the elderly did not receive government transfer payments (primarily Social Security benefits)‚ the 1986 poverty rate for the elderly would have been 48.5 percent instead of 12.4 percent. Medicare‚ the nation’s health insurance entitlement for the elderly‚ also provides
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Medicare Part D Drug Plan was created by Congress in 2003 to aid the elderly‚ disabled‚ and sick persons in affording their medication. Coverage for the drug plan went into affect January 1‚ 2006. This plan was called the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Cassel‚ 2005). The final bill that passed‚ was influenced by drug-company and health insurance lobbyists and focused mainly on the needs of those industries instead of the seniors it was meant to serve
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systems were becoming ineffective. By the end of the year‚ out of the 270 reported cases 121 of them ended in mortality (AIDS.gov). In response‚ The CDC released the report “Current Trends [...] and Precautions for Clinical and Laboratory Staffs” (CDC‚ 1982)‚ using the increased inflow of data to sketch an outline of the disease: As cases of HIV/AIDS grew (Figure 2)‚ the massive inflow of statistical data‚ ranging from common lifestyles to symptoms‚ allowed doctors to characterize the disease quickly
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quality of life for the inhabitants of a state‚ or (2) threatens significantly to narrow the range of policy choices available to the government of a state or to private‚ nongovernmental entities (persons‚ groups‚ corporations) within the state.” Years later the Copenhagen School around Barry Buzan‚ Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde widened this concept. According to them‚ security is not something that is real‚ but it is a “speech act”; meaning that all issues can be turned into a security problem. This
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our effort to curb the spread of HIV‚ we propose to continue and improve on our outreach effort targeted at the Chinese speaking Geylang crowd‚ and to initiate a campaign targeted at youths. The main objective of both efforts would be to encourage condom use and promote HIV testing as means to prevent the spread of HIV. On top of having both campaigns‚ we would like to propose making HIV testing more convenient by assisting with the implementation of a Mobile HIV Testing Van (MTV) service. Continuing
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certain diseases. The environment plays an important role as well. Children in day care centers and in school pass infections around and then take them home and pass them to siblings and parents. This is a cycle that is difficult to break. Children also don’t always practice good hygiene and that makes them both susceptible to as well as good transmitters of disease. Many human infections are caused by either bacteria or viruses. Immunisation is available to prevent many important bacterial diseases
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