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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HIV/AIDS: The effect on the global community. According to the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) At the end of 1999; an estimated 34.3 million people were living with HIV/AIDS. Most of the people living with HIV‚ 95% of the global total‚ live in developing countries.” Examples of the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa‚ Asia‚ Latin America‚ the Caribbean‚ and the Newly Independent States provide insight into the demographics‚ modes of exposure‚ treatment
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Youth Drug Abuse Profile Drug addiction is a complex but treatable disease. It is characterized by compulsive drug craving‚ seeking‚ and use that persist even in the face of severe adverse consequences. For many people‚ drug abuse becomes chronic‚ with relapses possible even after long periods of abstinence. In fact‚ relapse to drug abuse occurs at rates similar to those for other well-characterized‚ chronic medical illnesses such as diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and asthma. As a chronic‚ recurring
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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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impact of HIV/AIDS on San Francisco‚ the rest of the United States‚ as well as the rest of the world. I will tell how it started small an expanded across the globe. This disease killed many and is still taking many lives today. The origin of the disease is believed to be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where people hunted infected chimpanzees for meat and became infected themselves when they came into contact with the chimpanzee blood(Where did HIV come from?‚ 2012). Aids affected
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Prenatal drug abuse is a very tragic‚ yet preventable issue in our society. For a pregnant woman‚ drug abuse is doubly dangerous. Drugs may harm her own health‚ interfering with her ability to support the pregnancy. Also‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. All illegal drugs‚ such as heroin and cocaine‚ pose dangers to a pregnant woman. Legal substances‚ such as alcohol and tobacco‚ are also dangerous‚ and even medical drugs‚ both prescription and over-the-counter‚ can be harmful
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Anti Aids Drug AZT: How it Works and HIV Resistance Name: Jacob Burbank Student ID: 20456553 TA: Steffie Mendaglio Anti Aids Drug AZT: How it Works Many viruses around through our environment have the capability to infect and reproduce in humans‚ sometime quickly being able to spread over a substantial amount of the population. HIV is a retrovirus which advances into AIDS‚ and it has infected people worldwide‚ most prevalently in Africa. Retroviruses are able to
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Article Drug Abuse: The excessive and unregulated use of drugs which is popularly called drug abuse or drug addiction has emerged as a major social problem recently and has crossed the border of caste‚ class‚ creed‚ sex and nation. Drug Abuse is one of the banes of modern society. It has hit all regions and all sections of our society. It is found in rural and urban areas‚ among poor and the rich‚ among the men and women. But it is most overwhelmingly practiced by young boys and girls in hostels
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GlaxoSmithKline and AIDS Drugs for Africa What comes to mind when you hear the words “pharmaceutical company”? There are many ways to define a pharmaceutical company. According to the Princeton review‚ a pharmaceutical company is a drug company that makes and sells pharmaceuticals. Another definition for a pharmaceutical company is an industry that develops‚ produces‚ and markets drugs licensed for use as generic and/or brand medications. These companies are subject to a variety of laws and
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Argument 1 Prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused category of drugs‚ behind marijuana and ahead of cocaine‚ heroin‚ methamphetamine and other drugs. The National Institutes of Health estimates that nearly 20 percent of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons (Longley par.8). Some prescription drugs can become addictive‚ especially when they are used in a manner inconsistent with their labeling or for reasons they were not prescribed. Those
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