HIV/AIDS

exposed to HIV/AIDS. Multiple research efforts over previous decades have revealed multiple risk factors contributing to HIV infection in African American female youth. These include infrequent condom use, multiple sexual partners, substance use, low self-esteem, interpersonal trauma (child sexual abuse), and ineffective coping styles (Danielson, Walsh, McCauley, Ruggiero, Brown, Sales, Rose, Wingood, & DiClemente, 2013). African Americans accounted for an estimated 44% of all new HIV infections…

have hit the world at large is HIV/AIDS. The deadly virus has claimed many lives in the recent past. However, increased knowledge on how to combat the virus and ways to prevent infection by the virus has played a significant role in reducing HIV prevalence. This paper presents an array of HIV-related issues including the global statistics of HIV prevalence, U.S ranking on HIV prevalence, efforts made by World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies to combat HIV and existing social…

Syringe exchange programs reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis, as they help to remove contaminated needles from circulation. In addition, the syringe programs provide education and offer counseling for users who seek help. However, many argue that syringe exchange programs promote drug abuse and raise crime rates, but that is not true. In Duluth, Minnesota attempts to begin an exchange program met opposition due to these fears, but later when it opened in a new location, there were no issues.…

spread the virus. I fully understand that disclosure of positive HIV status has the potential to create turmoil in the lives of the affected as well as their loved ones. Stigma, the potential for violence, and discrimination is the fear that people with positive status live with. The comment, "We can fight stigma. Enlightened laws and policies are key. But it begins with openness, the courage to speak out. ", by Hanna Fishman an AIDS awareness activist, is a powerful one (Candidate, 2014).…

and shrubs to cure an infected person of a disease undiagnosed as Hiv but with fevers symptoms and signs of someone really sick it had to be a condition of the gods. But the evolution of science has proven over the years that this not only what is a Virus is…

Origin of the AIDS Pandemic In modern day Congo in the capital city Kinshasa, formally known as Leopoldville, a group of professionals in a laboratory, collected samples that inadvertently changed the origins of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus since its emergence has spread throughout the entire world, causing the rise of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic. There are many different theories on the origins of the HIV infection that caused for the AIDs…

of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in the United States, minorities have been disproportionately affected and represent the majority of people newly infected and living with the disease.1,2 To illustrate, there are more than 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the US but 506,000 of these people are black.3 In 2010, blacks accounted for 44% of new HIV infections and Hispanics/Latinos accounted for 21% of the new HIV infections compared to whites.4 In an effort to mitigate the burden of HIV/AIDS,…

The Aids Disease is called the Aids Syndrome when you include all the symptoms that can come from an infection. AIDS, the letters mean: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is actually the final step or stage and most serious parts of the disease process. The process can even last for ten years until it causes severe problems in life. This is a problem with the immune system in our bodies. It is our ability to fight off infection from bacteria or viruses which are…

Time magazine's talk about the AIDS Epidemic in their Aug. 3, 1992, cover. The audience is mostly educated adults in their early 20's to late 50's. Those are the people that would be most worried about AIDS and how it was affecting America at that time. The cover main title is "losing the battle", in 1992 AIDS became the number one cause of death for U.S. men ages 25 to 44, there was no cure for AIDS. But there were treatments for people living with aids to allow them to live a little longer.…

HIV/AIDS have you heard of it? The unfortunate tragedy of HIV/AIDS haunts many innocent people with unwanted symptoms. Gifts are supposed to be good, right? Well not in this case HIV/AIDS comes with a lot of unwanted gifts that are threatening life. II. Alicia keys helps children and their families in battling HIV and AIDS through the charitable organization “Keep a Child Alive,” which she co-founded and serves as a Global Ambassador for. The KCA foundations purpose is to help prevent HIV and…