courses BESE-065: HIV AND AIDS EDUCATION Assignment 1 Answer the following questions i) Briefly explain the need and importance of HIV and AIDS education.( 250 words) Answer: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that kills or damages cells of the body’s immune system. This virus causes Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is a life threatening disease and a major cause of concern for the government as well as general public. As the cure for AIDS is not known yet
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more solved assignments! BESE-065: HIV AND AIDS EDUCATION -2013 Presented by www.myignou.in Answer the following questions i) Briefly explain the need and importance of HIV and AIDS education.( 250 words) There are three main reasons for AIDS education‚ the first of which is to prevent new infections from taking place. This can be seen as consisting of two processes: Giving people information about HIV - what HIV and AIDS are‚ how they are transmitted‚ and how people can protect themselves from
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common tumor found amongst HIV-infected patients. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the HIV/AIDS awareness event. Today we will be talking about the history of AIDS and the misconceptions that have blocked our minds from the truth behind this horrific disease. What are the origins of this horrific disease? What are the myths of our past that are still believed today? What is the actual‚ medical truth about HIV/AID? There has been much confusion about how and where this horrendous
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aids.org/ HIV and AIDS Activities - information from the FDA Office of Special Health Issues. www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/hiv.html Specialized Information Services Home Page - US National Library ... - ... Library of Medicine (NLM) is responsible for information resources and services in toxicology‚ environmental health‚ chemistry‚ HIV/AIDS‚ and specialized ... www.sis.nlm.nih.gov CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) Home Page - ... CDC - Divisions of HIV / AIDS Prevention Home
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MDG6 Combat HIV/AIDS‚ Malaria and Other Diseases: MDG6 strive to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Most of the indicators show positive trends‚ particularly in the case of HIV prevalence among pregnant women‚ and detection and provision of health care for TB patients. The latter has been achieved and the former is likely to be. This can be attributed to swift and focused action on the part of the government‚ particularly in the case of TB. However
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1 Discrimination of HIV/AIDS Discrimination of HIV/AIDS-positive people in medical field and in society is morally wrong In the rural area of Nigeria‚ an AIDS patient cut his hand and‚ when he went to the closest hospital to bandage it‚ the doctors kept transferring him from one outpatient department to another medical ward‚ then to another one because they did not want to get infected
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In current society‚ malaria has played a significant role in children who died before the age of five. Over the past century‚ average life expectancy has more than doubled. However‚ there were 135 million children who were born five years ago‚ approximately 10 million of them died before the age of five (Bill Gates‚ 2009). The essay will focus on the reason and solution‚ and then give some recommendations. The mosquito is the main reason to cause malaria. More specifically‚ mosquitoes transmit
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2000 words essay on: HIV-AIDS AIDS‚ The full form is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immune Deficiency Virus). It is a condition in which the built in defence system of the body breaks down completely. This phenomenon is gradual but ultimately leads to total depletion of a very important cell component of the immune mechanism. Thus those who are affected are unable to combat with common diseases including even mild
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AIDS and HIV Awareness On October 30‚ 2006‚ I attended the Women HIV/AIDS prevention seminar located in the science and research building. This event started at 5:00pm‚ and it was hosted by the Sister Love‚ Inc. The speaker was a representative from Sister Love‚ Inc named Nairobi Moss. The Women HIV/AIDS prevention seminar was about how we as African American’s can help educate each other on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It also was about how to prevent these diseases‚ and how it affects us in the
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AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV is transmitted usually through unprotected sex with someone who is already infected‚ but it can also be transmitted through infected blood. The immune system is greatly affected by the disease. Once it enters the body‚ the virus recognizes a protein on helper T-cells‚ called CD4 (Cluster of Differentiation Antigen No. 4)‚ and it attaches onto that receptor to take over the CD4 cell. The result is a virus
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