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Today's AIDS Victims' Treatment and the Plague Depicted in Boccaccio's 'The Decameron'

In four pages this paper compares the social problem of the Black Plague that is the subject of 'The Decameron' with the modern da...

Bioethics Advanced Essays

This paper contains ten pages and discusses the complexities of bioethics by summarizing the biology of HIV and the disease produc...

AIDS and HIV

bodily fluids such as semen and blood, usually through sexual contact or the use of dirty needles for injecting drugs, and is not ...

Africa, Health, Poverty, and AIDS

viewpoint on the topic is important for research, if effective means of reducing and eradicating the disease are to be found. ...

A South Africa Global AIDS Perspective

Africans are currently HIV positive (AP Worldstream, 2002; MacGregor, 2002). Some 5000 are said to die each week from AIDS-relate...

AIDS and Africa

for them and the hospital space is needed for others (Scarce Money, Few Drugs, Little Hope, 2002). This seems horrific...

Personal Account of the Black Death

In five pages this paper represents an historically true personal portrait of the effects of London's bubonic plague epidemic. Tw...

International Implications of Nursing

affect the level of health care available to individuals in sub-Saharan nations, the exodus of qualified health care providers and...

Pertussis Rises Again

By the 1970s, the country believed that scientists had finally controlled the spread of major diseases like whooping cough, also k...

AIDS and the Bubonic Plague

insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen...

Vitamin D Deficiency

This research describes a planned project and the issues associated with a global epidemic in regards to vitamin D deficiency. Thr...

Literature Review, Vitamin D

This research paper constitutes the literature review portion of a project addressing the global vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Ar...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

American Army and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak

In fifteen pages this paper discusses epidemiology, problematic prevention and treatment associated with the epidemic of Spanish I...

The Workplace in South Africa As It Relates to Ethics Regarding HIV and AIDS

of these high levels of HIV prevalence"(AIDS/HIV Statistics 2002). The organization, USAID, is the largest AIDS/HIV related organ...

Homelessness and Children's Health Issues

is the factor which many of these children are denied due to their living conditions or lack of them. Most builders or carpenters...

Boston, Massachusetts and the 1721 Small Pox Epidemic

In five pages this epidemic and inoculation techniques developed in eighteenth century Boston are discussed. Four sources are cit...

Insurance Industry and AIDS

In forty pages this paper examines how the insurance industry has been affected by the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Twenty sources are ...

The Third World, HIV, and AIDS

AIDS was first discovered in New York and California among homosexual males and intravenous drug users in 1980. It quickly became...

Thailand's Tourism and the Impact of AIDS

revenue. Prostitutes are one of the many amenities that travelers can expect. The government fears that a tough policy would scare...

Can the 'Epidemic' of Teenage Suicide be Cured?

In five pages this paper examines why suicide among teens has grown to epidemic proportions. Eight sources are cited in the bibli...

Function of Political Institutions in Combating Epidemics

This research paper examines the significant role that governments take in battling epidemics, which occur both domestically and i...

Overview of Mad Cow Disease

In five pages this paper discusses mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an etiology overview that includes the 1...

Epidemics and Civilization

course, pregnancy is not contagious and while there may be something occurring in large numbers it is not the same thing as focusi...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Epidemic Proportions of the Plague and Cholera

In six pages this paper takes a historical examination of the epidemic proportion reseached by outbreakes of the plague and choler...

A Deadly Epidemic That Lasted Centuries

There are dozens of infectious diseases that have taken the lives of millions and millions of people. Some data back to many centu...

Final Project Proposal, Vitamin D Epidemic

approach: The purpose for the proposed project is to investigate the issue of vitamin D deficiency, which has been determined to b...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

An AIDS Epidemic Simulation Model

In a paper consisting of eight pages a simulation model that supports the need for education and other support systems in slowing ...