900 children become infected with HIV - the vast majority through mother-to-child transmission because their mothers do not have access to the medicine they need to prevent the transmission. This staggering statistic and the global pediatric pandemic is what the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation are advocates for. Because the serious issue of pediatric aids has touched my in a personal way‚ I wanted to spotlight the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation and the woman behind the
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Mother to Child Transmission of AIDS in Africa G.T. English Composition II A.L. Jan 26‚ 2010 How do you tell a child they have AIDS? How many kids are born with AIDS in Africa? Due to the epidemic of AIDS in Africa should the United States assist in supplying mothers who test HIV positive baby formula to discourage breastfeeding? HIV is not spread through pregnancy‚ but in breast milk. It would make a difference if mothers who are HIV positive in Africa did not breastfeed
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To what extent do you think that The Fly can be read as a metaphor for the cultural fears and anxieties surrounding HIV/AIDS in American in the 1980s American society in the 1980s was traumatized with fear and anxiety over a new disease called AIDS‚ initially emerging among non conventional social groups – mainly gay men‚ though eventually spreading to the ‘ordinary’ population. While the government remained silent‚ the media frantically reported of previously vigorous and healthy people reduced
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aggressive strategy in combating HIV/AIDS among its South African workforce? What recommendations would you give the company concerning its HIV/AIDS policy? The pros behind Anglo American’s ART program are the fact that they took the initiative to step up and help their workers prevent the transmission of AIDS‚ treat AIDS‚ and provide other services like giving free condoms‚ providing counseling‚ etc. By taking the initiative and changing the way they see the AIDS epidemic in Africa‚ Anglo American
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for clean water‚ women in rural sub-Saharan Africa literally and symbolically walk the social‚ economic‚ and geographic paths along which‚ scholars argue‚ the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be mapped." Link It was back in 2002 when Kofi Annan identified women as the backbone of Africa‚ and sounded the dire alarm that the combination of famine and AIDS was disproporationately impacting African women "who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation of rural communities." "For
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AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Timur Eren Spring 96 HPE12 BACKGROUND Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981‚ through mid-1994 more than 402‚000 AIDS cases and more than 241‚000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV infection‚ however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infected with the virus through the mid-1990s but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition‚ although the vast majority
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A Whisper of AIDS In Mary Fisher’s A Whisper of AIDS speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention‚ she highlights one of the more grave challenges the world has been facing‚ and that is the comeback on HIV and the AIDS virus. Fisher’s speech addresses her own account with the virus as well as the mindset and understanding of this virus on a national as well as a global scale. Fisher highlights the conspiracy theories on this virus as well‚ and urges her audience to take into account that
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the 1990s‚ not many people were educated about HIV and AIDS; therefore‚ the viruses spread rapidly. People infected each other with the virus without even knowing they had it. Another major issue was that doctors were giving many people the virus through blood transfusions. Once they realized what they had been doing‚ they were devastated. With this discovery‚ the reality of HIV and AIDS was truly understood. Mary Fisher delivered “A Whisper of AIDS” in Houston‚ Texas‚ at the Republican National
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likely than uninfected individuals to acquire HIV infection if they are exposed to the virus through sexual contact. In addition‚ if an HIV-infected individual is also infected with another STD‚ that person is more likely to transmit HIV through sexual contact than other HIV-infected persons (Wasserheit‚ 1992). There is substantial biological evidence demonstrating that the presence of other STDs increases the likelihood of both transmitting and acquiring HIV. Increased susceptibility. STDs appear
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“The Age of AIDS” by frontline is an apt study for two reasons. First it details the process of identifying a disease which was new and mysterious; second in doing so it gives us insight on how epidemiology plays an important role. This gives us an understanding of epidemiology and its basic concepts in force while executing this role. The objectives of epidemiology of identifying the cause of disease‚ in this case AIDS‚ extent to which it has penetrated. Finding records for similar cases for further
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