people lack knowledge about the sexual transmission of HIV. This points to the need for education in order to prevent more people from becoming HIV positive. This should include: a nationwide campaign for HIV Counselling & Testing (HTC)‚ encouraging condom usage‚ monogamy and voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC). The World Health Organisation states that VMCC reduces the risk of male to female HIV transmission by 60%. These strategies will all help to curb HIV pregnancies. It is estimated by
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How AIDS has Affected Black Communities There has been an alarming increase in HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Blacks constitute only 12% of the U.S. population‚ but they represent 41% of reported AIDS cases from 1996 to now. 55% of women with AIDS are African-American‚ and 58% of pediatric cases are among African-American children. Since 1991‚ AIDS has been the leading causes of death in African American men ages 25-44‚ and in 1994‚ the disease became the number one killer of African-American
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can add up to a dangerous combination. Dr. Theresa Crenshaw‚ a past president of the American Association of Sex Educators‚ Counselors and Therapists‚ in testimony before a House subcommittee in February 1987‚ said‚ "To say that the use of condoms is safe sex’ is in fact playing Russian roulette. A lot of people will die in this dangerous game." Yet despite warnings like this‚ schoolteachers routinely present homosexuality to their students as just another option about which
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Sexual Issues Life is good‚ Morden life is messy. Many social problems have surfaced in all new forms‚ and they affect the life of all people some way or somehow. But still the world turns and fights on so that these issues don’t eat at us. But sex though‚ one of the greatest gifts of life: that makes life‚ helps us live life and is life; now seems to be a problem to life. Transforming into an issue to mankind‚ and more problematic to the present college student. People may wonder why this
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are 60% less likely to become pregnant or get someone else pregnant than teenagers who undergo abstinence-only sex education. Comprehensive sex education is a program that conveys complete and medically accurate information about contraception and condoms‚ and also promotes abstinence. By educating students‚ you allow them to see the consequences that go along with sexual intercourse‚ but you also allow them to understand how to prevent these consequences‚ and how to protect themselves. To prevent
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Everything You Need to Know About HIV/AIDS In October 1991‚ Earvin “Magic” Johnson was told that he tested positive for HIV after he took a routine physical. After much consideration Johnson made the decision to retire from the Los Angeles Lakers because of his medical condition. When his condition was published‚ some media outlets reported that some individuals confused his HIV with the disease AIDS. People believed the only way to contract HIV were by being a drug addict or homosexual. Magic Johnson
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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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Master in Business Administration School of Business and Management Xavier University SEAFOOD AMERICA: CORPORATE RESPONSE TO AIDS Case #3 Dr. Alma Frances R. Hortelano MBA 111B Dynamics of Management CHRISTINE R. LAURENTE MBA 1 SEAFOOD AMERICA: CORPORATE RESPONSE TO AIDS CASE #3 I. Point of View: Case writer II. Statement of the Problem: What can Seafood Industry do for the company & its employees at the prevalence of HIV/AIDS?Predicaments threat on:
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gone through the body and mind changes of puberty. The only thing I remember from that class was the discussion of STDs and the video we were required to watch had a woman explaining that we should never let a boy tell us he is too large to wear a condom‚ right before she stretched it over her
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INTRODUCTION The State Vs.The Church”. This has been the perception of the people when RH Law or The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354) has been tackled. The RH Law has been a controversial bill during the time was not yet passed but now the current president of the Philippines; His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Aquino III signed it on December 21‚ 2012. The government wants it pass because it cares for its people‚ giving the mothers a privilege
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