Nurses VAD: Voluntary Aid Detachment FANY: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Both of these nursing organizations played a critical role in WW1 nursing. The VADs were unpaid volunteers (and therefore usually from a higher social class where money was not an issue) who were given basic medical training. These women‚ while they could not typically give injections‚ could comfort and provide basic medical treatment to wounded soldiers. The role of a FANY nurse was less glamorous. Their jobs
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AIDS Outline Introduction: Many people have heard of the disease AIDS. But they aren’t aware of what exactly it does to your body and how dangerous it is. Since the epidemic began‚ an estimated 21.8 million people have died of AIDS. According to the A.D.A.M Medical Encyclopedia AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among people ages 25 - 44 in the United States‚ down from number one in 1995. Today I will be talking about what exactly AIDS is‚ how it is transmitted‚ and possible treatments for
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HIV and AIDS are one of the most formidable challenges to human life and dignity‚ undermining social and economic development especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It has stripped families of their loved ones and hard earned income. To the economy‚ the damage is so extensive‚ there has been reduced productivity resulting in less gross domestic product. HIV and AIDS are very vicious challenge to human life as there is been no cure for the pandemic hence the number of deaths due HIV and AIDS related diseases
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Aids and the Reagan Era Kiauhna Braddy History 105/Lisa Hawkins March 14‚ 2012 First Reports of AIDS and misconceptions in the United States In early June 1981‚ the first reports of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia discovered among five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles‚ and published in the medical literature. The men were described as homosexuals; all five men had either previous or current infections with a virus and fungus usually seen in cancer
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HIV/AIDS and Women Women are facing devastating impact of HIV/AIDS in world over. In India women are already economically‚ culturally and socially disadvantaged lacking access to treatment‚ financial support and education. They are outside the structures of power and decision -making. They lack the opportunity of participating equally within the community and are subjected to punitive laws‚ norms and practices exercising control over their bodies and sexual relations. They are perceived as the
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EQUIPMENTS BLOOD TRASNFUSION AND ORGAN TRANSPLANT HEALTH WORKERS * SIGNS AND SYMTOMS * PHASES OF HIV AND AIDS ACUTE HIV DISEASE LATENCY PHASE AIDS PHASE * CONFIRMATION AND COUNCELLING * STIGMATISATION * PREVENTION INTRODUCTION HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is different from most other viruses because it attacks the immune system. The immune system gives our body
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Stigma of HIV/AIDS It goes without saying that HIV and AIDS are as much about social phenomena as they are about biological and medical concerns. From the moment scientists identified HIV and AIDS‚ social responses of fear‚ denial‚ stigma‚ and discrimination have accompanied the epidemic. Discrimination has spread rapidly‚ fuelling anxiety and prejudice against the groups most commonly affected‚ as well as those living with HIV or AIDS. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of education
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By: Richard Humphrey E-mail: rhumph@po-box.mcgill.ca Introduction Since the appearance of AIDS in the late seventies and early eighties‚ the disease has had attached to it a significant social stigma. This stigma has manifested itself in the form of discrimination‚ avoidance and fear of people living with AIDS (PLWAs). As a result‚ the social implications of the disease has been extended from those of other life threatening conditions to the point at which PLWAs are not only faced with
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RENT and the AIDS Epidemic The movie RENT was released in 2005 but is actually set in late 1989/early 1990‚ which was arguably the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and also a time which having the disease was basically a death sentence. While the first outbreak was reported in 1981 very little was actually known about the disease. Upon the outbreak‚ HIV and AIDS was seen and known (wrongly) as a “gay mans disease” because many gay men had been diagnosed with the type of cancer that
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BRAND: HISTORY: The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson‚ an employee of Johnson & Johnson‚ for his wife Josephine Dickson‚ who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. The prototype product allowed his wife to dress her wounds without assistance. Dickson‚ a Highland Park‚ New Jersey resident at the time‚ passed the idea on to his employer who then went on to produce and market the product as the Band-Aid. Dickson had a successful career at Johnson & Johnson‚ eventually
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