Essays on Aids

The agency mandated with protection and assessment of health conditions to all citizens and immigrants of United States is the department of health and human service. This is usually abbreviated as the HHS department (Siplon, 2002). This arm of the United States’ government plays diverse roles and ensures full implementations of Care Acts that are affordable alongside emphasizing on maintaining the integrity of the various programs offered in relation to Medicare in the United States (Ford & Spicer, 2012). HIV/AIDS pandemics have been reported to be on the rise in the recent past in the United States of America. According ...

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Alvin Ailey proved he was gifted in more than one way. Raised by a young single mother, life was far from easy for him. He rose from poverty to become a figure that greatly influenced the 20th century modern dance. Alvin Ailey’s rise from poverty all the way to the top and finally succumbing to AIDs is an interesting story. He certainly had his weaknesses, but Alvin Ailey is an individual who will forever remain in the hearts of dance lovers (Ailey & Bailey 1995).

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Alvin was born in 1931 in Texas. Being born to a teenage mother (17 ...

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According to the article, treatment of poisoned patients in a poison center is much cheaper as compared to poisoned patient treated in the hospital. Furthermore the patients treated in the poison centers takes shorter time to recover. The study compared the data obtained from Illinois Poison Center and data from the Illinois Hospital Association, and the results show that for every 10 patients treated in Poison centers there is a decrease in hospital charges by $2078 and the length of stay for poisoned patients was .058 days shorter. Notwithstanding the study finding that poison centers have shown ...

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- People in gay marriages continue to be discriminated against despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
- Thesis statement
- Gay marriages greatly contribute to the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS through the act of men having sex with men (MSM).
- Social factors and behavioral aspects raise the vulnerability of MSM to getting HIV infection. The HIV pandemic thus affects MSM disproportionately.
- There is strong pressure from many societies against gay marriages. As a result, many gay men marry women to conceal their real sexual orientation because the culture of the ...

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The Famous Event Organizer, George Washington, Brings to you the Biggest Annual HIV Marathon Event

Annual HIV Marathon Set for Dec 1 in New York City, Features a Forty Two Kilometer Run to Raise Money for HIV Research
NEW YORK, March 10, 2014- The creating leaders in the New York’s mayor’s office announce that the annual HIV marathon event will be held in the city on December 1, 2014. George Washington organized the event. He has headed organizatio of the event since its inception 8 years ago.
Washington, while advancing his prospects of reducing HIV and AIDS infections and creating the biggest marathon event, hopes to raise money from ...

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24.) Plants are classified into four major groups: Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and lastly the Angiosperms. Bryophytes are the plants that do not have true vascular systems, which consist of the xylem and the phloem. In this group, includes the mosses, liverworts and hornworts. Together, they are considered as land plants that reproduce their own asexually by producing spores. Spores are produced in the ‘sporangium’ (plural sporangia), a bulb-like structure located at the top of the stalk. It can only be seen through the use of high powered microscope. Because they lack vessels that can bring the nutrients from the ...

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Halting the spread/progression of HIV/AIDS by the year 2015 is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations (2013) indicate that tremendous advancements have been made in efforts to reverse the spread of HIV among the world populations. Most regions in the world have reported a reduction in persons newly infected with HIV. However, from a global perspective the awareness and knowledge level of how HIV is transmitted and prevention measures still remain significantly low especially among the young generation. Moreover, adherence and access to HIV treatment still remain a challenge to the control of HIV ...

The Guttmacher Institute has been providing research and policy analysis in the areas of sexual and reproductive health since the late 1960s. A major area of the organization’s research is in HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections. The Institute’s research is diverse and focuses on such disparate issues as education, sociology, and economics that interplay in cases of sexually transmitted diseases. Analyzing international and local attitudes towards sexual health, The Guttmacher Institute paints a comprehensive picture of the AIDS epidemic and how it is affecting the world.
There are many viruses, bacteria, and other parasites that can cause ...

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HIV and AIDS research has come a long way since the world first began to recognize HIV and AIDS as a problem in the 1980s. However, in much of the world, HIV and AIDS are still significant problems for much of the population. In the United States, HIV and AIDS are often associated most heavily with homosexuality and, in particular, homosexual men; however, there are many women infected with HIV.
This research will investigate a number of questions regarding the intersection of gender and HIV-positive status. Because the link between the male homosexual community has been thoroughly studied, this ...

Introduction

It has always been true that those not part of the dominant cultural group are alienated from the rest of the social environment, one way or another. Abuse among partners is common in many relationships, either heterosexual or homosexual. However, many times, prejudice and discrimination are directly shown upon gay and lesbian partners, which makes it hard for them to report abuse by their partner, out of fear of failing the social stereotypes. Violence and conscious manipulation are human traits that cannot be classified based on gender. They can occur in any relationship, including among homosexual partners. Intimate partner ...

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Armed conflicts in the recent past have been at the back of escalating living costs, which are affecting human well-being. This is through the measures in health spending, per capita income, political system type, income distribution inequality, women’s education, and urbanization. This has negatively affected human development. The US has numerous target attacks in the Northwest of Pakistan as from 2004 using drones, which are aerial vehicles that are unmanned. They are C. I. A. Controlled to attack targets Tribal Areas that are Federally Administered along the border of Afghan.Purpose statement
This brings the understanding of the underlying ...

History

HIV AIDS is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world today. In most developing countries, the disease has brought untold suffering to key populations especially in resource strained countries in sub Saharan Africa. It is against this back ground that “friends of the less fortunate” group was formed. This is a charitable group that started way back in 2005 at Yale university school of medicine to create HIV awareness in rural communities in Africa. It was formed by three African American doctors who were on scholarship at the University. The group also supports over ...

It is an American documentary film directed by David France in 2012. It is heartrending piece of filmmaking. The film covers the AIDS pandemic from its beginnings. It explores the societal norms that stimulated the spread of the pandemic and the continuous loss of innocent lives. Outrageously, it exposes the social prejudice held about the disease and the sterling discrimination that people affected by the disease were subjected to. France, the director, says that he knew that all that people were doing was historical, and many people will continue to die out of it if no action is taken. ...

While many people attribute the ritual of circumcise as having been passed down from the religion of Judaism, research yields the fact that there are numerous forms of circumcision that have been practiced for centuries in many cultures. The oldest documentary evidence of circumcision existing as a ritual is from ancient Egypt. In different cultures male or women are circumcised for various religious or practical purposes. In the West, it is generally only the males who are circumcised. While religious reasons have existed in the past, in our Western culture, circumcision is a ritual that alleges to have practical, ...

The attribution theory examines how a person uses the information to come into a conclusion regarding a certain event. It suggests that people use the information at their disposal in a social scene to deduce an explanation of a social occurrence. It is a theory developed by psychologists in a bid to understand how individuals in society perceive certain occurrences (Martinko10). The individuals use the accessible information to understand and explain an occurrence. When people from different social setting interact in the same social set up, there are forces that pull them together. Their ideas and explanations to different ...

The article provides information regarding practical approaches aimed at preventing new HIV infections. O’Byrne looks at the beneficial aspects of a self-centered approach and the need to use such tests to reduce the rate of HIV infections. He believes that HIV can affect a large number of people because HIV is a transmittable infection. As such, O’Byrne considers HIV infection to be a public health issue because of its ability to affect the health of entire populations. According to O’Byrne, testing can ensure early detection and treatment of the HIV infection. The author provides that early ...

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A war makes an immense negative impact on economies of both the aggressor and the aggressed nations while peace promotes and facilitates growth and development. During war time, all resources are channelized to war efforts, and other developmental activities come to a grinding halt. It also devastates economies, and foreign aids and grants are warranted to bring them back on rails. We shall examine whether foreign aids effect to the growth, and development of India or it ...

Introduction

This essay aims to discuss certain aspects about the increasing trend of rapidly growing Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) among the US’s major foreigner community Latino. The matter becomes serious when specifically we look at the population of this community in the Los Angeles (LA) county, of the California (CA) State. It has around 4.9 million Latino-based population. The Latino population includes 48.3 percent of total in LA and 38.4 of total in California. They also comprise of 21.6 percent of total firms in LA and 16.5 percent of total firms in the California. They are owned either by ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, a main cause of worldwide AIDs, belongs to the Lentivirus genus of Retroviridae family. Pathogen causes chronic type of symptoms, taking a long time of latency it constantly keeps replicating inside human body. HIV is categorised into two types, HIV-1 and HIV-2. The genome of this retrovirus consists of two single-stranded RNA molecules. Though, both are involved in AIDS, HIV-2 seemed less virulent and demonstrated more frequent connections with the disease of central nervous system (Fanales-Belasio et al. 5).
Like other retroviruses, the genes located on HIV chromosome are gag, pol, env. The functions of gag, ...

AIDS/HIV is always a burning issue in African countries. The epidemic hit most of its prominent countries and makes it economically more backward. Certain vulnerable groups like prostitutes, gays, prisoner etcetera have severely affected by the disease. However, with the help of the government of United States a program, pepfar, is being carried out to check its further spread. Various welfare projects come under the programme to make their lives better.
The article discusses three important prospects that are used to get the desired results. These include the Sex Workers Project, Ndlovu Care Group, and Doctors without Borders’ Ubuntu ...

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In Writing Assignment 1, We looked at the health of the imprisoned in the United States jails, prisons and found that among the prisoners there are many incidences of STI’s. For instance, among the prison people there are those living with HIV/AIDS that compounds the health problems affecting the uninfected prisoners. Numerous of such individuals contract the disease before they are passed through the prison system. The inmates are therefore faced with high risks factors of contracting as well as transmitting the disease while in jail ...

- Why are mutations at D185, D186 and D110 are so detrimental to RT activity? (15 Points)
Mutations at D185, D186 and D110 are very detrimental to RT activity owing to the fact that the three carboxylate residues have been documented to participate in some forms of physiological processes and metal coordination function that is fundamentally required in the binding of deoxyrobonucleotide substrates to the enzyme. And so, when these subunits are interfered as a result of mutation then the fore mentioned biological process are essentially incapacitated. Furthermore, the region was also subcloned due to mutagenesis hence the high ...

Robert Gober was born in 1954 and represented United States in Venice Biennale i.e. in 2001 as a one person art exhibitionist in the contemporary art museum in Los Angeles. His meticulously created sculptures explore human sexuality, relationships, as well as, religion. Most of his work is based on the childhood memories he had together with the influence he receives from his surroundings which include his home or even the studio. His work is well crafted by hand in his studio and they include among others large sized room installations which at times incorporates theatrical and water lighting. While ...

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome better known as AIDS is a viral disease. Research analysis indicates that, the disease is mainly caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus attacks the immune system and ensures that it weakens the site. After the attack, the infected person is made vulnerable to diseases and other infections. The origin of the disease is said to have come from viruses initially infecting African primates. The transmission of the virus to the species is what led to the outbreak of the disease in humans (Paul &Beatrice 2011). A single SIV (simian immune deficiency ...

Screening is a vital medical exercise. It helps in identifying victims at higher risks at early stages of the disease making it possible to develop medical intervention measures that can reduce the risk of illness and death. Notwithstanding the fact that screening helps in identifying the level of risks, there are certain implications that make it undesirable. There are medical conditions in which screening is an inevitable exercise. For instance, blood pressure is a non-controversial screening program. Nevertheless, genetic screening for prostate or breast cancer, mandatory HIV screening, or obesity screening are some of the most controversial screening programs. ...

Condom access in schools could be either good or bad. Whether or not students should have access to condoms in schools is a hotly debated topic. I will consider the teen pregnancy rate, rate of STDs in teenagers, how babies affect teenagers, and how condom access could prevent the spread of HIV in young people in the countries where HIV seems to be a large problem. I believe condom access in schools is a good thing, based on the available evidence.
If access to condoms in schools is a positive thing, it’s especially important to the United States, ...

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Affordable Care Act or ACA is a remarkable opportunity for people who have HIV, as well as people who are presently receiving services over the Ryan White Program, to raise their approach to affordable and quality health care. The federal states, government, consumers, and insurers have a list of roles and responsibilities to facilitate the implementation of the ACA. Ryan White Program is a national program designed particularly for the treatment and care and for support programs for people who have HIV or AIDS in the United States. The Ryan White Program is controlled by ...

Alzheimer's disease is the 6th most major reason for deaths in the United States where approximately 500,000 people fall victims to death by this disease each year. The estimate for people living in the grips of this illness was around 5.4 million in 2014. With the confounding increase in the cases of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, it has become crucial that we analyze the possible causes. The factors that lead to the onset of dementia include vitamin B12 deficiency, heavy metal poisoning, side effects of medicine or drug interactions, and some brain tumors, chronic cases of alcoholism, and ...

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The Criminal Transmission of HIV article addressed the controversial issue of prosecuting individuals for transmitting HIV to others. The article also outlined different categories for prosecution, including intentional, reckless and accidental. Each of these terms were defined and some of the problems were addressed regarding prosecution. It was stated that it is difficult to prosecute individuals for transmitting HIV, because it is not easy to gain proof. The victim would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was indeed the defendant that gave him/her the disease. This ...

There are four main models that were developed by Kearney as models of clinical application. These models were to aid in perspectives of qualitative research. They include assessment of progress or status, proposed insight or empathy, coaching and anticipatory guidance. All these models when applied in the nursing field vary in their degree of visibility and patient involvement . These models of clinical application of qualitative evidence have the core objective of helping in making a logical conclusion or explanation when conducting a research. The model of purpose for the purpose of this study is assessment of progress or status ...

- If K65R and D113E are conserved mutations, what type of mutations are Q151M and Q151N. They are non-conserved is not the correct answer.
K65R and D113E being conserved mutations implies that even after undergoing mutations they retain the original properties. There functionality remains almost the same. On the other hand, Q151M and Q151N, mutations will result in a change of their initial properties or additional functions may be gained in the process of mutation.
- The K65A RT mutant had a reduction in RT activity. Explain the reasoning behind this phenotype
In the cell, the presence of nucleoside ...

Article Analysis: Ad5 Specific

Article Analysis: Ad5 Specific
Since its discovery in 1983, scientists and researchers have been working hard to neutralize the threat of HIV against humans . This advance has included many strategies. Researchers have tried counterattacking the virus while it still hibernates in monkeys, once it was concluded that is where HIV originated . Other strategies have included offsetting the virus after it becomes active in humans. Unfortunately, some of these vaccinations, such as the Ad5 vaccination, allowed the vaccine to progress further, as seen in human trials . Other vectors, such as CMV were used in order to correct Ad5, and to ...

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Sexually transmitted diseases or infections have a profound impact on the society by affecting the health of the individuals involved. Humans are faced with difficult situations in which they need to take an ethical decision whether they should disclose the fact of being diagnosed by an incurable STI with a potential partner quite early in a romantic relationship.
One in five Americans has a sexually transmitted infection. If I tested positive for an incurable sexually transmitted infection, I would disclose that fact to a potential romantic partner early in the relationship to stop the spread of the ...

1. Poverty is a cause of poor health in a community. “The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is poverty”, these are the words of Former Un secretary general Koffi Annan in his2001 address to the World Health Assembly. Globally, there is a definite relationship between poverty and poor health. Life expectancy in the Least Developed Countries is just 49 years and ten percent of newborn children do not reach their first birthday (Allen, 2006, pg.73). Interestingly, in highly developed countries, the average life span is 77 years and the infant mortality rate is six per 1000 ...

Oticon: Building a flexible world class organization

Oticon was a business founded in 1904 by HansDemant, who got inspired by his wife who suffered from hearing impairment. He started the hearing aids importing business from the US for his business, as well as for his wife. The products range from hearing aids, church hearing aids, hospital receivers and patients receiver systems. The company continued until the beginning of the World War II when importing hearing aids became impossible. The company came up with a radical change program aimed at altering the structure process, organization job content and careers. Despite the company aiming at its new innovative ...

When there are two events or conditions, with one being the cause of the other being the effect, then this will be referred to as the cause and the effect (Smith 3). The cause is that condition that makes the other condition to happen, while the effect is that which happens. For instance, when it comes to a disease such as HIV/AIDS, HIV is the cause, while AIDS is the effect (Smith 13). In this case, a single cause leads to a single effect. It should be noted that some causes may have multiple effects. Apart from that, a ...

Relationships are hard. The divorce rate skyrockets yearly, alternative lifestyles such as gay marriage and polygamy/polygyny are under attack and more and more women are becoming single mothers. The work that goes into developing a long term, meaningful relationship necessitates that the relationship begins on a foundation of honest communication, and acceptance. Without these two selfless traits along with a willingness to struggle in the name of achieving a mutual goal, a relationship cannot work. Because we live in a society that does not value abstinence, the likelihood of contracting some type of STD/STI while engaging in unprotected sex ...

Studying the demographics of health disparities among various ethnic and racial groups may address fairness issues in providing health care services. The issue of health disparity tends to be overlooked in the society, but it works like a plague-like strain that spreads when left unaddressed. Those who belong to minority groups (LGBT, Asians, Latinos, or Black) are often subjects of discrimination from a socio-cultural perspective. Hence, people from minority groups often get the short end of the stick when accessing health benefits. Such outcome makes people from the minority groups more susceptible to health-related complications and prone to sickness ...

Description and Analysis of Specific Public Health Problem

HIV/AIDS used to be a disease that was rendered incurable due to the fact that there was no treatment back then. In fact, it is notable that the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS ultimately served as a “death sentence” (Lopez, 2011), mainly because of the fact that the patient is left without any options to prolong his life. However, the development of HIV/AIDS treatment has now lead to the transition of HIV/AIDS from being an acute cureless disease to a chronic one that can be countered with specific medications. Such, of course, served as a welcome development to HIV/AIDS patients, who ...

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Research carried out has provided an enormous amount of information available for both patient and clinicians on HIV and AIDS. Mechanisms to prevent the transmission of the disease have been outline. However, the methods of preventing its transmission will differ as per the background of the individual. A few nations are even now falling behind in education and thus their strategy for keeping the transmission of the illness will be unique in relation to that of the developed nations, for example, the United States. United States is a developed country, and much of its populace is very much educated. ...

Introduction

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has the privilege for a regal consent on March 27, 2012 that built new public health system. It is consequently imperative to reiterate the vision of government for the fresh public role of health in domestic official bodies and, to recap the new legal structure for domestic government that strengthens that dream. The act encompasses the accountability to ensure protection of health to upper level, unitary domestic official bodies and, Secretary of State. The liabilities of critical public health lie on upper level and unitary domestic official bodies. The government issues the ...

How mnemonic strategies of children differ from those of adults

Mnemonic strategies play a crucial role in strengthening retrieval and long-term retention of information. Several strategies are applicable in creating mnemonics (Goswami, 2008). For instance, one can use acronyms to cram a list of names. One can also decide to use acrostics to sharpen memory retention and information retrieval, where they use the first letters in sentences to help them retrieve a list of words. Rhyming is another important strategy. Essentially, these strategies should be used in learning.
Mnemonic strategies of children differ from those of adults (Goswami, 2008). Whereas children use simple strategies to enable them remember easily, ...

Abstract

The paper focuses on presenting strategies about the problems that are present in the historically black colleges and universities. Strategies like funds allocation from the local public, training and development programs for the students and awareness campaigns for the student groups in the colleges and universities. Strategies for improving this situation are presented in the paper.

Introduction

The paper will be discussing about the problems associated with the historically black colleges and universities and how can proper strategies help these colleges in overcoming these issues. The most uncomfortable reality about these colleges that are known as historically black colleges and ...

Hearing is one of the most vital senses we have, and exclusive of it, life can never be the same. Individuals who are unable to hear will always have a problem to communicate effectively with the people around them. Conductive hearing loss is the most common hearing problem in children. This type of hearing problem begins in childhood, even though it can show up at any age. The hearing problem occurs when the sound transmission through the middle ear is blocked (Haberman, 2004). Therefore, sound cannot be efficiently passed through the outer ear to the middle ear. A child ...

The task of this assignment is to create a sample letter of appeal to call upon a reader to support a cause. This exercise helps to create confidence in the skill of mastering business letter formats. Be advised. The organizations shown in the examples are real. However, the attached letter serves only as a sample means of employing the proper way to write such letter.
700 North Sacramento Blvd., Suite 300

Chicago, IL 60612

Aids Foundation of Chicago
200 West Jackson Blvd., Suite 2100

Chicago, IL 60606

Dear Mr. Peller:
I am a student volunteer in the Children’s Place Association, focusing upon improving the ...

The human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, is among the quickest known evolving entities. It multiplies sloppily, piling up lots of mutations during the process of copying its genetic material. It also multiplies at a high speed where one virus can breed billions of copies in only a single day. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS, was first acknowledged as a new disease in the year 1981 during which rising numbers of youthful homosexual men died of strange opportunistic infections, as well as unusual malignancies (Greene). A retrovirus, now referred to as human immunodeficiency virus type 1, HIV-1, was later on keyed ...

- Where target population receives health-related services for selected disease which is (HIV) examples hospital based, home care, social services agencies.
Washington, DC is a state with the highest rate of HIV in the country. The epidemic of the disease is still not controlled. However, studies have determined that the people of poor socioeconomic status are inflicted more of the ailment than the population in general. The health care services for the HIV positive patients are provided through authorities who can be approached through The Washington State Department of Heath (http://www.doh.wa.gov/). However, a preview of the facilitation makes the ...

Article One: Nisha, J., Xavier, L., & Wilma, C. (2013). Is Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Stage and Independent Risk Factor for Altering the Periodontal Status of HIV-Positive Patients? A South African Study. BMC Oral Health, 13(69).

Credibility of the Article

The current article is a peer-reviewed article that based on an empirical study that was carried out with the intent of establishing the correlations that exist between HIV and periodontal disease. This article as co-founded by Nisha, John, and Xavier, Stephen. Wilma, Charlene also contributed to the contents contained in the current article. Apart from being a peer reviewed article, the credibility of ...

In the following essay, we shall discuss a neurodevelopmental disorder and a neurocognitive disorder. Neurodevelopmental disorders like Autism Spectrum disorders constitute a wide variety of diseases that mainly translate into behavioral deficit in children affected by it. Autistic children often show reduced social skills and being a heterogeneous spectrum no two patients are exactly similar. Neurocognitive disorders can range from mild to extreme and can be caused by various other diseases. HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder or HAND has emerged as one of the most prominent neurodegenerative disorders in the recent past(Mayer, 2013).

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder; recent ...

Stephen Gould the author of “The Terrifying Normalcy AIDs” tries to explain the magnitude and prevalence of AIDs the society. HIV/AIDS stands for Human Immune Deficiency /Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome. The disease affects the human immune system. It’s a life threatening condition for it makes the body to be unable to fight off most infections that may attack. There is still no cure for HIV/AIDS but there are many remedies that are being used currently to wane the effects of the disease. The emergence of new infections is one of those factors that are making the fight against the ...

In the modern society, infectious diseases appear to cause a serious concern. They tend to carry severe economical and healthcare burden, and continue to be responsible for an alarming situation. Infectious disease do evolve in order to become established in a given human host and gradually become responsible for a life threatening situation An early detection and implementation of hygienic protocols is essential to get protection from such conditions. In such context, the present description is concerned with highlighting about HIV virus.
Briefly, HIV stands for Human immunodeficiency virus. It is responsible for causing AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) in ...

History

2014
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Science changed the total geography of the Universe. Latest inventions and discoveries in the medical field paved a better way of disease diagnosis and its cure. However, there are certain some diseases that still need more scientific and medical attention. There is still unavailability of proper medical cure for such diseases. This deadly group of diseases includes AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The lethal disease is also known as HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.

What is AIDS/HIV?

AIDS is a disease of human immune system caused by HIV virus. It includes all the diseases, ranging from early infection to late stage ...

Abstract

Infants are increasingly being infected with HIV virus every year due to mother to child transmission. Funding and advances in antiretroviral therapy have generally made the reduction and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV accessible and affordable but infants are still being born and infected with HIV. There is a 15-50% chance of HIV transmission from the mother to the newborn in the time of breastfeeding, pregnancy, labor and delivery, if appropriate measures are not undertaken. In interpretation of parental requisite role of protecting the infant, there has been a heated debate on whether mandatory HIV ...

In this paper, the growth of contemporary Christianity in Uganda will be analyzed. Uganda, or Buganda (its original name dating back to the name of the ancient and independent kingdom that ruled the region, from the British missionaries and colonizers in the 1800s until Ugandan independence in 1962, and into the present-day, has been shaped primarily by three Christian groups: Anglicans, Catholics, and the wave of evangelical churches that have come to the country from the United States. Both Christianity and Islam are two major world religious influences in Uganda, and Islam had already been in the region for ...

In this popular and award-winning episode of Designing Women, the controversial and often-talked about topic of the modern era on sexuality is the topic of the discussion as well as the extreme, opposing views on the matter are the subject of portrayal through the characters. Conservative people who believe in the strict notion of gender roles without admitting any exceptions to the rule still find great power in society. On the contrary, liberal and post-modern advocates of the new-age definition of socially-acceptable sexuality continue to struggle in order to gain acceptance and freedom from prejudice.
The very bold statement ...

The social setting that most individuals are exposed to determines their overall health in the society. The disparity that exists between some of the nations in the world when it comes to health is widening with each passing year. During the signing of the millennium goals back in 2000, the world’s richest nations decided to assist the less privileged nations find their footing when it came to creating a level playing field. Now that the deadline for the millennium goals is getting closer, people are left wondering what comes next. It is vital to note that even as ...

- Define substance abuse and how this health problem affects the community
Substance abuse is the excessive use of chemical substances that increase the risk of problems and lack of the ability to control the substance. It includes the misuse of medications, alcohol and other illegal substances. Further, substance abuse has a significant impact on the individuals, families and communities. The impacts of substance abuse are cumulative and contribute to costly social, physical, mental, as well as public health problems (Abadinsky, 2008). For example, substance abuse affects a person’s physical health and social relationship. They include teenage pregnancy, ...

Introduction

The reality of HIV/AIDS, the world’s third leading cause of death was put in perspective by Mary Fisher-the daughter of a wealthy Republican at the Republican Convention in Houston in 1992. HIV/AIDS is a sexually contracted disease that attacks and paralyzes the human immune system leaving individuals vulnerable to attacks by opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis, malaria and diabetes. The importance of the speech by Mary Fisher is that it changed the political atmosphere and appealed to humanity in the political process that surrounds policy making and funding of HIV/AIDS. Her speech, titled ‘A Whisper of AIDS’ made ...

The high prevalence of incarceration history among Black men who have sex with men in the United States: associations and implications.
Brewer, R. A., Magnus, M., Kuo, I., Wang, L., Liu, Y. Y. & Mayer, K. H. (2014). The high prevalence of incarceration history among Black men who have sex with men in the United States: associations and implications. Journal of AM J Public Health. 104(3):448 54
Aims of the study: The study was aimed at examining the lifetime incarceration among 1553 black men who have sex with men (BMSM). It is for a fact that black men ...