American Women and HIV/AIDS Tanya Waller HCS/455 October 20‚ 2011 Jennifer Hilkert African American Women and HIV/AIDS In the past 10 years‚ there has been an enormous stride put forth in trying to detect‚ prevent‚ and treat HIV/AIDS. In spite of these efforts there are still economic‚ political‚ scientific‚ and social barriers that remain. Worldwide there has been about 60 million individuals who has become infected with HIV/AIDS in last two decades after the HIV/AIDS epidemic began
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Using appropriate examples‚ discuss the implications of HIV and AIDS on development in Sub – Saharan Africa. HIV and AIDS is a critical issue for development in Sub – Saharan Africa because of the scale of HIV infection and the numbers of deaths that occur in the main productive and reproductive age group 15-49 year olds (Jackson‚ 2002). The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (2004) donates that the epidemic has caused and is continuing to cause untold suffering among those infected with the
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Lethal Sex: Conditions of Disclosure in Counseling Sexually Active Clients with HIV Elliot D. Cohen‚ Ph.D. The present HIV pandemic presents challenges for mental health practitioners who‚ in the course of therapy‚ sometimes become privy to confidential information about potentially lethal sexual relationships ongoing between the client and one or more uninformed partner(s). In this lecture I will discuss the current professional/legal status of making disclosure in such cases‚ and
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million people are living with HIV worldwide and Sub-Saharan Africa makes up 68% of the global total with 22.5 million people living with HIV.1 In an effort to address this epidemic‚ voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) programs have been implemented in many of rural and remote areas. VCT serves as the gateway to HIV prevention‚ treatment‚ care and support by allowing people to learn their HIV status. According to World Health Organization (WHO)‚ knowledge of one’s HIV status benefits the individuals
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HIV And Its Effects 1 HIV And Its Effects Elizabeth Grundy Psychology 102 Dr Peggy Peach October 10‚ 2001 HIV And Its Effects 2 HIV AND Its Effects The effects HIV has on a person‚ symptoms‚ risks‚ history and prevention will be explained. HIV is on a rise among sexually active people. According to Packer (1998)‚ HIV‚ the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)‚ is a member of a family of viruses. The first member HTLV-I and related to STLV-I researchers believe they both have
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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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commemorations of independence. However‚ of late the country has been grappling with the HIV/AIDS pandemic‚ a deadly evil of magnitude proportions with which no refuge exists. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana has graduated to being a vicious threat against humanity in spite of sexual orientation‚ age or social status. “Southern Africa is the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2003 Botswana had an HIV/AIDS prevalence estimated at 37.3%‚ second highest in Southern Africa after Swaziland”
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Cepeda Social Psychology HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination Strayer University November 19‚ 2011 Internationally‚ there has been a recent resurgence of interest in HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination‚ triggered at least in part by growing recognition that negative social responses to the epidemic remain pervasive even in seriously affected communities. Yet‚ rarely are existing notions of stigma and discrimination interrogated for their conceptual adequacy and their usefulness in
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syndrome. AIDS is caused by a virus known as HIV‚ the human immunodeficiency virus. If HIV is contracted the body will begin to make anti-bodies in order to fight the infection‚ if these antibodies are found in the blood the person is known as HIV-positive. HIV causes the immune system to weaken which leads to opportunistic infections that can make the compromised host sick due to the weak immune system which is how HIV leads into AIDS. A person with HIV is known to develop AIDS when the immune system
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social support in coping with HIV/AIDS The terminal nature of HIV has been a source of profound despair in modern civilization. The brutal effects of the virus are untreatable and as a result have forced interventionists to seek other methods of helping patients who have been infected by the disease. Psychologists have sought ways of improving the mental state of patients; at the forefront of this particular research field is the role of social support in coping with HIV. Social support has largely
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