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heterosexual sexual contact, including sexual behaviors with IV drug users and others who have contracted the virus through sexual...
16,000 new infections per day (AIDS Weekly Plus, 1997). With figures like these, it is essential that health care providers under...
women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...
only to cure and resolve the problem HIV are bound to fail as they do not tackle the root causes of the spread of the virus, The o...
AIDS gained its name because HIV attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by m...
1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...
overall problem of HIV/AIDs, including current statistics about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in certain populations and the role tha...
much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...
the following paper examines AIDS and Africa from a predominantly anthropological perspective, looking at their culture as a means...
care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...
of health promotion models. Though a single theory may not provide a complete perspective, the study of several theories can buil...
and 7) is noteworthy and requires further study" (Vlahov et al. 1129). In addition this study found that "The incidence of HIV-...
needles, and a baby born with HIV passed on from his/her mother, HIV-positive consumers defy easy classification. Clearly, each o...
In all honesty it seems to be a problem with the poor as well as the middle class, white and black, male and female, straight and ...
AIDS sufferers, with an incidence rate of between 7% - 50% (Lores et al, 2002). However, it is not isolated to this group, the fir...
undue stress that is directly related to workplace attitudes. According to Paul et al, "the problem of AIDS in the workplace is c...
and AIDS Treatment, 2004). Then the virus will begin to reproduce itself as though no drugs were ever taken because the virus beco...
and HIV-2 are the main categories for which there are also subcategories, HIV -2 is the most virulent and also leads to the lower ...
country. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between orphans and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and ident...
Asian/Pacific Islanders and Whites, in contrast, comprised only 4.8 percent and 7.9 percent of 2001 AIDS cases (Kaplan, Tomaszewsk...
chromosomes of the affected cell. This duplication process is carried out with the help of an enzymatic reaction controlled by th...
students have numerous misconceptions about how HIV is transmitted (Blanchett, 2002). Blanchett (2002) attempts to provide more d...
sufferer by weakening attacking the lymphocytes T Cells1. These are the cells that will usually those that fight infection, when t...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...
informs the patient on the various options available to them for aiding their own recovery and return to health. Many of the manag...
of these high levels of HIV prevalence"(AIDS/HIV Statistics 2002). The organization, USAID, is the largest AIDS/HIV related organ...