Scholarly paper on HIV in women Student name: Institution: Introduction Relevant nursing issue Some of the questions that arise from women living with HIV are barrier to social services. It affects the livelihood of women; thus‚ they are unable to acquire some essential services. Another issue is that they have mental health problem; thus‚ they are placed
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HIV/AIDS and African Americans In the United States one of the leading causes of death for African American women is HIV/AIDS. This paper is on the African American women living in the United States with HIV/AIDS‚ how the health care policy affects them and the different stakeholders that are being affected by the health care policy. “HIV is the virus that causes AIDS” (2010). The virus weakens the body’s defense system‚ this makes it hard on the body to fight off other health problems and as
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people in the United States are living with HIV/Aids. HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system. HIV can be divided into two categories HIV-1 and HIV-2. The HIV-1 strain is most common. The HIV-2 Strand is mostly found in West Africa‚ unlike HIV-1 which can be found worldwide. The HIV-1 strand is more pathogenic. HIV if left untreated will develop into AIDS. AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is the result of a long exposure to HIV. HIV will attack the host cd4 cells. Cd4 cells signal
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marketing segments and ultimately demand for goods and services. Towards this end I would like you to reflect on area that may affect us all in the future‚ America’s Baby Bust. To get an understanding of this I would ask you read the Wall Street Journal article entitled “America’s Baby Bust” appearing in the Feb2-3‚ 2013 issue page c1. You can locate the article from the FSU library database or from my attached word file. After reading the article- Your assignment is to: 1. Indicate and defend why you
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Economic Consequences Of AIDS/HIV Affects on economically active people: • Will not be able to work • Women are the main tillers of soil as well as the main cares when family members become ill • When patients are in hospital it is common for woman to take care of them‚ bath them and feed them so pressure is caused not just by the financial burden of hospital care but by the time lost of tending land Impacts on Sexually active: • Impacts on sexually active people is that they will not
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HIV/ADIS epidemic statically by educating a girl. Educated females will know how to treat and prevent HIV/ADIS. According to a study conducted in Uganda‚ each additional year of education for girls reduces their chances of contracting HIV by 6.7 percent and that the disease spreads twice as fast among uneducated girls. If I was raised in poverty my life would have been a little different. I may have never graduated high school. The mental effects of poverty could have effected
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Social and Economic Effects of HIV/AIDS on Poverty in Africa Within the last thirty years‚ it has become well recognized that HIV/AIDS is a serious disease that takes many lives every year. However‚ we may not be getting the full story. What people don’t realize is the extreme social and economic effects that result from the spread of HIV in Africa. This should be a serious concern of every person of every country‚ not only because of the massive loss of life‚ but because of the danger posed by
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HIV / AIDS INFECTED WIDOWS IN TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT‚ TAMILNADU The Indian epidemic continues to be concentrated in populations with high risk behavior characterized by unprotected paid sex‚ sex between men‚ and injecting drug use with shared injecting equipment. Several high risk groups have high HIV prevalence‚ and sexual networks are wide and inter-digitizing. According to India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO)‚ the bulk of HIV infections in India occur during unprotected
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family planning (FP) options‚ and to promote HIV and STI prevention among young people from age 18 to 24. It involves educating a targeted population in Straatford Farm village in KwaZulu-‐Natal province about how HIV is transmitted and how it can be prevented. Young people will also be
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infant associating the caregiver with providing for physical needs such as hunger. However‚ John Bowlby argued that attachment is an innate primary drive in the infant. This theory was reinforced by Harlow & Zimmerman’s (1959) experiment involving baby monkeys who had been separated form their mothers and offered two surrogate “mothers”. One of these was made of wire‚ but had a nipple attached which provided food. The other was made of soft cloth and provided no nutrition. The results showed that
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