The Facts about HIV & AIDS After working in the healthcare field for a few years‚ I have come to the disturbing conclusion that there are still so many of us that have no knowledge of this deadly epidemic that’s spreading across the U.S.. This disease is called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome commonly known as AIDS. AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ also known as HIV. This disease is one of the leading
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What is HIV? What is AIDS? Two big questions which have been answered only recently. What we still don ’t understand is what HIV and AIDS bring to. Is it just death and physical sufferings? No. There is much more. Alongside these first problems there are other secondary problems which are not usually thought of. I will talk about the sociological‚ economic and ethical issues surrounding the availability of treatment in different countries‚ but first I must explain what HIV and AIDS are. Basically‚ HIV
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Out of all the videos‚ the first one had the greatest impact on me and stuck out in my mind more than any of the others. I think it is the biggest overview of videos‚ giving a deep look at what AIDS really is and how it came to be. The video described how HIV literally comes to life when inside a person’s body‚ which gave me chills. Personally‚ I found the videos quite disturbing. It is important to realize‚ however‚ that this is a worldwide epidemic and the children’s faces we see in the videos
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The AIDS outbreak in the United States in the late 1980’s prompted education on the prevention of the spread of AIDS by the use of condoms. The AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program was established in 1987 by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). A similarity between Thailand and the US is that both countries were concerned and had been for many years regarding the AIDS epidemic. Mechai’s work inThailand focused on prevention
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transmission of HIV (i.e. Abstain). The risk can also be reduced‚ through avoiding sexual intercourse other than with a mutually faithful uninfected partner (i.e. Be faithful) or through the correct and consistent use of condoms (i.e. Condomise). Avoiding AIDS as easy as... • A bstain • B e faithful • C ondomise PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMITION. An intervention known as “prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV‚” or PMTCT‚ provides drugs‚ counseling and psychological support
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epidemic affected millions of people. Although it is true that the AIDS virus was spread to people of all genders‚ sexual orientations‚ and races‚ there were many stereotypes that stuck with the name of the disease. Mary Fisher‚ who is an American political activist‚ artist‚ and author made herself an advocate for AIDS prevention and educations after contracting HIV from her husband. She conducted her cleverly named speech‚ “A Whisper of AIDS‚” at the 1992 Republican Convention to spread the word to her
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Group Speech AIDS in America Micaiah Bradford‚ Noah Fryer‚ Qiang Pan‚ William Best Attention Getter Introduction Attention Getter: Today we are going to talk about a disease‚ it started in 1959‚ and from Global Health Observatory data‚ more than 70 million people have been infected with this disease‚ 35 million people have died because of it. Over 1.1 million people died worldwide in 2015‚ and yet there is no cure for this disease. You might have already guessed what we are going to talk about today
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Australia’s international aid program aims to help reduce poverty and promote economic independence in developing countries. Australia offers two types of aid‚ bilateral and multilateral aid. Bilateral aid is given directly to the government of the developing country by Australia’s government and is used for health‚ education and training programs‚ technology and technical support‚ community based projects such as building hospitals and schools‚ and emergency support. Multilateral aid includes all forms
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Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in America was a huge crisis during the 1900s. Not knowing the true nature of AIDS‚ the society and policy makers simply alienated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive population. The stigma of AIDS exacerbated existing problems of prejudice and social inequity. However‚ Mary Fisher’s inspiring speech cleverly titled‚ “A Whisper of AIDS‚” effectively promoted awareness of HIV and AIDS throughout the United States‚ and brought a change to a public policy on AIDS related
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deadly disease. The AIDS epidemic continues to be incurable. In an essay written by David Herlihy‚ entitled "Bubonic Plague: Historical Epidemiology and the Medical Problems‚" the historic bubonic plague is compared with the current AIDS epidemic of today. According to his research‚ AIDS will probably prove to be the plague of the millennium (Herlihy p. 18). If one compares the epidemiology and social impact of these diseases they prove to be quite similar. The current AIDS epidemic has the
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