Paper about First Aid Basic first aid refers to the initial process of assessing and addressing the needs of someone who has been injured or is in physiological distress due to choking‚ a heart attack‚ allergic reactions‚ drugs or other medical emergencies. Basic first aid allows you to quickly determine a person’s physical condition and the correct course of treatment. You should always seek professional medical help as soon as you are able‚ but following correct first aid procedures can be the
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The Concept of First Aid‚ Safety Education‚ and Accident First Aid – is the immediate‚ temporary care given to a patient or victim of an accident before the services of a physician could be obtained. It is applied to prevent further injury‚ reduce pain experienced by the patient‚ and shock from the injury. Safety Education – is the recognition and avoidance of hazards causing disability or death in modern living. Accident – is defined as unplanned or unexpected event of events in a sequence
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First aid compilation What is first Aid? Is an immediate care given to a person who has been injured or suddenly taken ill. General objective’s of First Aid * To alleviate suffering * To prolong life * To prevent added/ further injury Different kinds of injuries and the procedure on how to give first aid said injuries: Minor burns * Procedure * Take the person away from the source of burning and let the airway of the victim be open. * You can remove
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economic‚ and‚ most importantly‚ moral sense. Although ninety-five percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are in developing countries‚ the impact of this epidemic is global. In South Africa‚ where one in four adults are living with the disease‚ HIV/AIDS means almost certain death for those infected. In developed countries however‚ the introduction of antiretroviral drugs has meant HIV/AIDS is treated as a chronic condition rather than a killer disease. In developing countries like South Africa
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CASE 45 AIDS‚ Condoms‚ and Carnival Worldwide‚ more than 2 million people died of AIDS in 2009‚ and more than 33 million are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. BRAZIL Half a million Brazilians are infected with the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)‚ and millions more are at high risk of contracting the incurable ailment‚ a federal study reported. The Health Ministry study is Brazil’s first official attempt to seek an estimate of the number of residents infected with
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HIV/AIDS and Discrimination: A Discussion Paper. Table of Contents. HIV/AIDS and Discrimination: A Discussion Paper by Theodore de Bruyn © Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Canadian AIDS Society‚ Montréal‚ 1998 ISBN 1-896735-14-2 Table of Contents To download and/or print: Index of retrievable components To browse online: Links to main sections of this Table of Contents: Diversity‚ Stigma‚ Discrimination‚ and Vulnerability Current Problems for People with HIV/AIDS The Experience
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AIDS means acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is past from person to person. The disease attacks the immune system which is not strong enough to fight this deadly disease. The AIDS disease has a number of symptoms and conditions that come with it. HIV causes the disease AIDS. HIV means human immunodeficiency virus. A virus is a very small organism that gets into a person’s body and makes a disease. The virus HIV also only affects humans. If someone has been infected with AIDS they are called
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Without a single doubt‚ one can say politics has been the main driving forces in the spread of this disease. Once the “triple cocktail” was discovered by doctors‚ it managed to signal an era in which AIDS was no longer a fatal disease. Nevertheless‚ the high costs of this drug meant that it was unaffordable to patients from the undeveloped countries where stigma and desperation flourished. Additionally‚ patients in developed countries such as America were incapable of being introduced to this remedy
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I N T R O D U C T I O N An Overall View of HIV/AIDS Statistics in UK: According to the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases‚ in the early 1980s‚ the number of people diagnosed with HIV was a increasing steadily. From 1987 to 1990 the cumulative number of HIV diagnoses reported was almost doubled (from 8‚016 to 15‚166) (1‚ 2). Between 1990 and 1997 there were between 2‚000 and 2‚700 HIV diagnoses reported annually.(3) From 1999 there was a huge rate of increase in the number of annual HIV Infected
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AIDS and HIV are very serious problems in Africa. Over 75 percent of the people living with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are more than 25 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa with HIV. As a result of multiple genetic studies‚ it is said that HIV in Africa came from chimpanzees that were butchered over 100 years ago for meat. HIV has two subtypes. HIV-1 is the most common and is related to the chimpanzees in Africa. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 can both cause AIDS‚ however HIV-1 is
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