about the HIV/AIDS problem in your country. You must cover the following points: 1. The size of the problem: How many people are infected? Which are the key population groups that are affected? What are the main routes of transmission? 2. Describe the cultural/social norms in your country and how they impact on the developing situation 3. How do you think that the knowledge above might be used to tackle this problem and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS? WORD COUNT: 898 HIV is one of
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Paediatric HIV/AIDS in India . According to National AIDS Control Organization 2007 estimates ‚out of an estimated 2.31 million people with HIV and AIDS in India‚ women constitutes 39% and children below 15 years stands at 7.8% Improved access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres is key to fight against HIV/AIDS. It is important to design and implement intensive child-focused IEC separately targeting rural and urban population through an appropriate mix of media.It is also important
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and Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) found out that at the end of 2001‚ 13.4million children under the age of 15 had lost one or both parents to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The increase in AIDS‚ which orphans many children‚ is one of the major challenges in many countries. According to HIV/AIDS Perspective (2004)‚ one of the worst consequences of AIDS is the large number of children orphaned as a result of parents dying from AIDS. By mid 1997‚ 10 million children under
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Unemployment‚ and challenges in Saudi Arabia Is it not strange to hear of the unemployment problem from the largest oil exporter in the world? The problem of unemployment in Saudi Arabia began to appear at the beginning of the last century. In 1975‚ "Saudization" was launched as a way of replacing expatriate with Saudi workers for localization jobs‚ but after 37 years of unemployment is still one of the important topics of concern to citizen. The causes of the problem are education system‚ labor
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RESEACH A BUSINESS AND EXAMINES ITS INPUTS‚ TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES AND OUTPUTS. EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THIS BUSINESS. THEN DISCUSS WHAT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY IS AND HOW A BUSINESS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. Operations management is concerned with overseeing‚ designing and controlling the process of production and then turning raw materials and resources into outputs of finished goods or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient
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Advances in technology will result in a growth in unemployment. Technological advances allow society to produce more output from the existing mix of resources. These advances may take the form of less costly methods of producing existing output or may result in the production of new (or substantially improved) commodities (such as DVD players‚ HDTV‚ anti-lock braking systems‚ and similar innovations). Society clearly gains from the production of either more output or more highly valued output. Nevertheless
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The salient facts are these: one in four new HIV infections in the United States occur in people under the age of 22. AIDS is already the sixth leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 1996) and the leading cause of death among 25 to 44 year olds. In the 12 month period preceding July‚ 1996‚ two thousand‚ six hundred and sixty-seven people aged 13 to 24 were diagnosed with AIDS. A recent study from the Centers for Disease
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Demographics of HIV/AIDS in the United States of America HCS/490 Health Consumer Trends and Marketing January 21‚ 2013 Jennifer Pharr Demographics of HIV/AIDS in the United States of America “Every 9.5 minutes someone in the United States is infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).” According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)‚ there are approximately 1.5 million people living with HIV‚ and one out of five is not aware they are infected (CDC‚ 2011). The first documented case
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Issues concerning the HIV/AIDS and Malaria Epidemic Deandre Bonnelle World Issues Mr.Paterna Friday‚ January 11‚ 2013
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WRITING HIV/AIDS INTO THE BUSINESS: Striking a balance between indiscrimination‚ risk management and competitiveness. INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND Despite significant advances in HIV treatment and education‚ people living with HIV and AIDS have had a difficult time obtaining private health insurance and have been particularly vulnerable to insurance industry ‘abuses’. What are the insurers’ excuses for these ‘abuses’? What changes can begin to improve access to insurance for people living with HIV/AIDS
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