The Story of an Decimated Community The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) did not reach Vietnam until 1990 (National Committee for AIDS‚ Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control‚ 2012)‚ but its spread was as fast and expansive as anywhere else in the world. At the beginning‚ intravenous drug users (IDU) and female sex workers (FSW) were the major deliverers of the epidemic. However‚ over 20 years‚ it has ubiquitously infected some other groups‚ including mobile workers‚ men who have sex with
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middle-income nation. However Botswana‚ which once had the world’s highest rate of HIV-Aids infection‚ has one of Africa’s most-advanced treatment programmes. However‚ the UN says more than one in three adults in Botswana are infected with HIV or have developed Aids. The disease has orphaned many thousands of children and has dramatically cut life expectancy it is estimated that in a 2002 report 38.8% of adults are HIV positive which is the second highest in the world‚ behind Swaziland. The primary
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Learning from Mass Media Campaigns for HIV/AIDS Prevention Reviews of mass media campaigns have a special interest for me. They demonstrate what can be done‚ and as importantly‚ what cannot be done‚ by relying on a 1P approach. I have talked about the 5% Solution before‚ and noted another review of mass media campaigns for changing health behaviors. This post focuses on the findings from a review of recent campaigns to prevent HIV/AIDS. What is interesting in this report are the comparisons it draws
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Homelessness and HIV/AIDS NUR 408: Epidemiology: Global and Public Health University of Phoenix Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of diseases in populations and of factors that influence the occurrence of disease. Epidemiology examines epidemic and endemic diseases; it is based on the observation that most diseases do not occur randomly‚ but are related to environmental and personal characteristics that vary by place‚ time‚ and subgroup of the population. The epidemiologist attempts
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Critical Issues in Global Health—Spring 2013 –Yale School of Public Health Course Number: HPA566B Course Instructor: Richard Skolnik Course Description: The course will focus on critical challenges to the health of the poor in low- and middle-income countries and pay particular attention to how these health gaps can be addressed in low-cost and highly effective ways. The course will cover the architecture of global health‚ key trends in approaches to meeting the health needs of the poor in
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Home reading. As my qualification paper is devoted to the global health‚ I decided to analyze 4 newspaper articles from BBC‚ The Guardian and the NY Times concerning the cure for HIV/AIDS. In all the articles the topic of possible existence of the cure for HIV is discussed. They scientists from different world laboratories share their opinion on the right way of creation of this vaccine. It is extremely hard to find the appropriate therapy for patients‚ because the virus has a tendency to a very
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| |National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework II | |2010-2014 | National AIDS Commission Republic of Liberia TABLE
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The history of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria The first two HIV cases in Nigeria were identified in 1985 and were reported at an international AIDS conference in 19866. In 1987 the Nigerian health sector established the National AIDS Advisory Committee‚ which was shortly followed by the establishment of the National Expert Advisory Committee on AIDS (NEACA). At first the Nigerian government was slow to respond to the increasing rates of HIV transmission7 and it was only in 1991 that the Federal Ministry
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Chapter 1 1.1 Background The HIV and AIDS pandemic remains one the most serious development crises in the world (WHO‚ 2006). Women and children bear a disproportionate share of the burden‚ and in many settings continue to experience high rates of new HIV infections and of HIV-related illness and death. In 2005 alone‚ an estimated 540 000 children were newly infected with HIV‚ with about 90% of these infections occurring in sub-Saharan Africa (UNAIDS‚ 2006) .UNAIDS estimates that approximately
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HIV From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation‚ search "AIDS virus" redirects here. For the computer virus‚ see AIDS (computer virus). For the village‚ see Hiv (village). For the administrative subdivision‚ see Hiv Rural District. HIV Classification and external resources Diagram of HIV ICD-10 B20-B24 ICD-9 042-044 OMIM 609423 MedlinePlus 000602 eMedicine article/783434 MeSH D006678 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that
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