Charlene Jaudon HIV AND TEENAGERS: WHY ME Professor Carl Thomas HCA 498 Since HIV was diagnosed in the U.S. over 47 years ago the increase in new cases have caused major a crisis throughout the nation. Even though there is more information now about prevention and how the virus is spread the number of cases continue to grow. Teenagers‚ African American males and homosexual and bisexual males make up the highest number of new cases. Why? Is not the history of this
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NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR HIV AND AIDS TREATMENT AND CARE IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH ABUJA – NIGERIA OCTOBER 2010 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FMOH Mr. Linus Awute Permanent Secretary FMOH Dr. Michael Anibueze Director Public Health Dr. Balami Wapada National Coordinator HIV/AIDS Division Dr. Ngozi
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by HIV‚ a virus that can be passed from person to person through sexual fluids blood and breast milk. Worldwide the majority of HIV infections are transmitted through sex between men and women‚ and half of all adults living with HIV are women. Certain groups of people have been particularly affected and these include injecting drug users‚ sex workers and men who have sex with men. Slave trade has been an ongoing business interaction between multiple
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How AIDS has Affected Black Communities There has been an alarming increase in HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Blacks constitute only 12% of the U.S. population‚ but they represent 41% of reported AIDS cases from 1996 to now. 55% of women with AIDS are African-American‚ and 58% of pediatric cases are among African-American children. Since 1991‚ AIDS has been the leading causes of death in African American men ages 25-44‚ and in 1994‚ the disease became the number one killer of African-American
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the AIDS/HIV epidemic is that aids in Africa marks a really extreme severe development crisis in Africa. This is still today the worst affected area in the world. In sub-Saharan Africa about Forty-Two million people live with HIV/AIDS. The epidemic claimed almost about 2.4 million people in Africa and about 3.1 million lives are taken each year (HIV/AIDS Situation in Africa 2014). The average life expectancy in Africa in today’s society is only about 47 years‚ but if living without HIV/AIDS then
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2013 Health Campaign II In the US‚ HIV/AIDS is a major concern and about 1.1 million people are affected with the condition. About 20% of the HIV patients may actually not know about their HIV status. Every year more than 56‚000 new patients get infected with the disease. One of the measures of the Healthy People 2020 is to develop preventive strategies for better management of HIV illnesses and deaths. This is because currently‚ the problems due to HIV/AIDS are resulting in several health
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living behind the walls of prison with AIDS is like the big pink elephant in prison‚ it is colossal but conspicuously avoided. In other words the disease’s presence is apparent‚ but a great deal of ignorance is still pervasive. Offenders living with HIV are still unfairly treated‚ which they try keep their status concealed‚ and justifiably so due to the treatment of the guards or other inmates. Over 27‚000 people entered NYC prisons in 2002 and approximately 28‚000 were released. In addition‚ while
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estimates that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV and nearly one in five of those are not aware that they are infected (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is an infection that slowly destroys the immune system‚ which makes it difficult for the body to fight off infections. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a communicable disease transmitted through
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test HIV positive baby formula to discourage breastfeeding? HIV is not spread through pregnancy‚ but in breast milk. It would make a difference if mothers who are HIV positive in Africa did not breastfeed. Being that Africa can lay claim to having two-thirds of the worlds HIV positive population‚ one way to help stop the spread among kids would be to eliminate the breastfeeding altogether. While the world keeps supplying condoms and other forms of contraceptives‚ this author believes that HIV could
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- What are HIV and AIDS? HIV causes AIDS. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It breaks down the immune system (our body’s protection against disease). HIV causes people to become sick with infections that normally wouldn’t affect them. AIDS is short for immune deficiency syndrome. It is the most advanced stage of HIV disease. - How does HIV spread? HIV is spread by an infected person to someone else when there is an exchange of semen‚ vaginal fluids or blood. This happens during
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