How to Prevent the Spread of HIV Felicia White English 1001 May 5‚ 2013 Sean Leary South University HIV has been on the rise for some years now. HIV is the Virus that causes the medical condition AIDS. This illness attacks the immune system‚ making a person susceptible to many infections and diseases. The virus is found in the body fluids of an infected person and can be passed from one person to another. HIV can be spread in various ways‚ such as vaginal‚ oral‚ or anal sex as well blood
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main ways the HIV can be spread: 1. Sexual intercourse 2. Intravenous drugs 3. Blood transfusions (which are very rare now because all blood is tested) HIV is spreading like wild fire among adolescents because they don’t believe it can happen to them. Prevention for positives is only possible if a person knows his or her HIV status. Voluntary counseling and testing strategies (VCT)‚ a cornerstone of HIV prevention‚ has generally been seen as a first defense against the spread of HIV disease‚ with
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Abdalla A. Bafagih Professor Trent Newmeyer Sociology of AIDS Soc 309Y1F June 21‚ 2004 Impact of Culture on the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya a national culture is not a folklore‚ nor an abstract populism that believes it can discover the people’s true nature….a national culture is the whole body of the efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe‚ justify and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence
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INTRODUCTION TO HIV AND AIDS FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE SPREAD OF HIV INFECTION AMONG THE YOUTH OF MALAWI. INTRODUCTION We have several factors that contribute to the spread of HIV to the youth of Malawi. Here in Malawi we have a lot of cultural practices‚ some of them put young people at risk to contracting HIV; such cultural practice like‚ kutchotsa fumbi‚ gwamula and hiring a fisi. Other factors can be that of cultural difference‚ economic difference‚ peer pressure and multiple
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An analysis of the main reasons for the continued spread of HIV HIV‚ a virus only discovered in the late 1970s‚ has now become the most lethal virus around the world (UNAIDS‚ 2008). Scientifically HIV is a kind of virus which can destroy human’s immune system. Then‚ without defense of the body‚ other virus can easily infect body and ultimately results in death (WHO‚ 2013). Till the end of 2012‚ 35.3 millions of people live with HIV (WHO‚ 2013) and large quantities of family members suffer from the
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There are reasons for keeping inheritance around such as enlightened self-interest and a right to one’s possessions whereabouts after death. I will argue that Inheritance is not always justified given Haslett’s equal opportunity within capitalism reasoning behind abolishing inheritance. Giving everyone equal footing to start from not only promotes higher levels of competition but also levels the playing field. There is less importance on wealth and a chance to focus more on natural ability and productivity
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FACTORS THAT FUEL THE SPREAD OF HIV INFECTION AMONG THE YOUTH Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne transmissible virus and globally this virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is causing devastation by destroying communities‚ families and taking away hope for the future. Malawi has not been spared of the catastrophe brought by HIV/AIDS and the prevalence rate amongst young people between the ages of 15 and 24 remains unacceptably very high. As per the 2008 National Census
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‘You won this farm on the flip of a coin’ Dibs and Girlie flip of the coin ultimately destroys their families discuss: Inheritance is a play written by playwright Hannie Rayson. The complex play consists of two families being torn apart because of a fight over a farm ownership. The toss of a coin decides the future for twin sisters Dibs and Girlie Myrtle. Four years pass since their father’s death and one must return to Mallee from Melbourne to run the farm. Both girls seem reluctant to take on
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decided to interview a twenty-five year old woman who resides in the San Francisco bay area in California. Choosing to have her personal identity remain anonymous‚ the interviewee has granted us permission to refer to her as the alias Mary. Mary is currently married to a thirty year old man and has one nine year old son. Surprisingly‚ Mary did not contract the disease by having heterosexual intercourse with her partner like so many other women have gotten HIV. She had obtained the disease through intravenous
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Extrachromosomal Inheritance: n. Inheritance of traits through DNA that is not connected with the chromosomes but rather to DNA from organelles in the cell. Also called cytoplasmic inheritance. Essay on “Cytoplasmic Inheritance” Inheritance of characters from parents to offspring is primarily dependant on the nucleus. Oscar‚ Her twig etc.‚ had established in 1870 itself the importance of nucleus in the hereditary transmission of characters. The discoveries of Mendel further provided the genetic
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