The needle exchange program provides sterile needles in exchange for used dirty needles. Research has stated that with a program in place will reduce HIV and hepatitis C. The program will provide counseling and help educate the drug users. I am against the needle exchange program. The needle exchange program supports drug users in giving sterile needles. Needle exchange program’s are telling our children it is acceptable to use drugs because the government will supply clean needles. The legislation
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Unit 21: Applied sport and exercise physiology Assignment 3 – Ergogenic Aids Ergogenetic aids are used to directly influence the physiological capacity of a particular body system thereby improving performance they also are used to remove psychological constraints which impact performance and increase the speed of recovery from training and competition. Every athlete wanting to improve their performance whatever they are trying to achieve wants to do it quickly and get good results. For example
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Save a Man From a Stroke with a Needle! You can save a person who is having a stroke with a needle. This is advised by a Chinese professor‚ who tells people to always have a sewing needle or a syringe needle in their house. This is an unbelievable and unconventional way to save a person who is having a stroke. Share this advice and you may save someone’s life! Read this since you can never know when you will need to aid a person having a brain attack. When a man is having a stroke‚ the brain
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are the cancer‚ osteoporosis‚ Alzheimer’s etc. One of them is AIDS – the serious disease. Unfortunately‚ day by day the number of people who are infected with Aids is increasing. Infected people are very weak to fight off other infectious disease and soon they will die. AIDS is one of the dangerous diseases‚ so the people need to know about how to prevent it. Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome‚ popularly known by its abbreviation AIDS is a fatal disease as it attacks and destroys the immune system
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treatment‚ how does this effect public health‚ and where do people who use fit into these as it relates to gender? How do these converge into a public health option? One such treatment option to mitigate public health risks is a Needle Exchange Program‚ also referred to as a Needle Syringe ¬¬¬¬¬Program (NSP). What is the current medical approach to this health option? It is not a uniform practice in the US‚ this being‚ a directly federally funded and nationally implemented option‚ and is
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Summary of Gabor Mate’s “Embracing the Needle” Gabor Mate’s essay “Embracing the Needle” presents the origins of addiction and its effect upon the people who suffer from it. He seeks to educate about the causes of addiction‚ and how people continue in addictive cycles. Mate states that even when the source of the unhappiness is not obvious‚ that is what addiction always stems from. The essay begins by exploring causes of addiction and goes on to provide examples of situations which influence
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is it? The issue here concerns South Africa ’s growing HIV/AIDS patients. The world non-the-less isn ’t doing much about the situation that only seems to be getting worse. South Africa already has the highest growing HIV/AIDS rate in the world. The pharmaceutical companies offered very little medical donations or help; they ended up doing quite the opposite. When South Africa attempted to import generic versions of the needed HIV/AIDS drugs because of their drastically cheaper prices the pharmaceutical
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HIV AND AIDS Definition AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - was originally defined empirically by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) as “the presence of a reliably diagnosed disease that is at least moderately indicative of an underlying defect in cell-mediated immunity.” Following the recognition of the causative virus‚ HIV‚ and the development of the sensitive and specific tests for HIV infection‚ the definition of AIDS has undergone substantial revision. The current
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CHAPTER ONE- Introduction 1.1Background HIV and AIDS is a major health problem in developing countries. An estimated million people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide and more than 3 million die every year from AIDS-related illnesses. At of the end of 2007‚ WHO/UNAIDS estimated that 70‚256 people out of the total population of 25.2 million people were living with HIV‚ indicating a prevalence of about 0.55 % in the adult population in Nepal‚ though only 10‚546 cases have been reported. Out of 28
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Part One # - Assessment Task: PEFAP 001 Paediatric Emergency First Aid (1.1) Identified the responsibilities a of a paediatric first aider. The responsibilities of a paediatric first aider is to make sure that every person you attend to you have to make sure that you have comforted the individual‚ making sure that they are as calm as possible. This is to ensure that you can treat that individual as best as you can‚ it is important to act quickly and efficiently as possible. (1
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