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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How to Prevent the Spread of HIV Felicia White English 1001 May 5‚ 2013 Sean Leary South University HIV has been on the rise for some years now. HIV is the Virus that causes the medical condition AIDS. This illness attacks the immune system‚ making a person susceptible to many infections and diseases. The virus is found in the body fluids of an infected person and can be passed from one person to another. HIV can be spread in various ways‚ such as vaginal‚ oral‚ or anal sex as well blood
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Human service professional and hospice care workers work with patients with the virus HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) that causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Early on during the AIDS crisis social workers or human service professionals dealt more with the terminal parts of AIDS by starting up hospice services for the patients. Later on after much research and education the human service worker dealt with more of the psychosocial issues involved. Hospice services can provide advocacy
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The Truth about HIV/AIDS Iyana Scott Language Arts The Truth about AIDS How can we decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS virus? There are approximately 1‚148‚200 individuals residing in the United States who are living with the HIV virus or full blown AIDS. Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ also referred to as HIV‚ is an advanced virus that gradually reproduces a retrovirus that results into the development of immunodeficiency syndrome‚ known as AIDS. AIDS is a condition when the human
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HIV/AIDS Throughout history‚ few illnesses have carried as much significance as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS. Similar human catastrophes have presented in our history such as‚ bubonic plague‚ leprosy and tuberculosis. All of these dreaded sicknesses have caused pain and suffering across cultures. Pain is associated with the physical distress of the patient‚ suffering is culturally distinctive‚ it describes the affliction of the human spirit and how community members cope with it.
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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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Running head: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Swaziland HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Swaziland Andrew Jay Mallo Florida International University Abstract Since the first case was reported in 1986‚ AIDS has disproportionately affected the Kingdom of Swaziland relative to other nations in the region and globally. The high prevalence rate is characteristic of a generalized epidemic. It is estimated that there will be 20‚000 to 30‚000 new HIV infections each year. The Swazi Ministry of Health and Social
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An Exploration of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS. | People have unlimited needs and wants‚ but governments have limited resources. In the allocation of funds to any sector‚ the government faces competing interests. Money must be allocated for roads‚ public transportation‚ education as well as health care. Thus any government‚ seeking the people’s best interests would need to find a way to allocate resources that would be both efficient and equitable. HIV is an epidemic that treatments to wipe
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HIV is the virus that is commonly transmitted sexually and can develop into AIDS. In the U.S. gay and bisexual of all races are the most severely affected by HIV. HIV can also spread through breast milk‚ blood‚ and needles either through drug use or the use of an unsterile needles when getting a tattoo. Over 1 million people in the U.S. are currently living with HIV and 1 in 7 don’t know it. In the world‚ there are estimated 42 million people that are living with HIV/AIDS. The area with the majority
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Introduction to HIV/AIDS The first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported in the United States in the spring of 1981. By 1983 the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‚ the virus that causes AIDS‚ had been isolated. Early in the U.S. HIV/AIDS pandemic‚ the role of substance abuse in the spread of AIDS was clearly established. Injection drug use (IDU) was identified as a direct route of HIV infection and transmission among injection drug users. The largest group of early
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