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shortly after being diagnosed with the virus whereas others can take years to show any sign of the disease. New research by an int...
women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...
16,000 new infections per day (AIDS Weekly Plus, 1997). With figures like these, it is essential that health care providers under...
bodily fluids such as semen and blood, usually through sexual contact or the use of dirty needles for injecting drugs, and is not ...
heterosexual sexual contact, including sexual behaviors with IV drug users and others who have contracted the virus through sexual...
of health promotion models. Though a single theory may not provide a complete perspective, the study of several theories can buil...
care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...
the following paper examines AIDS and Africa from a predominantly anthropological perspective, looking at their culture as a means...
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...
them with the behaviors necessary for formulating good health decisions. The target audience for the program are African American ...
efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...
on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...
Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...
in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...
infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...
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...
however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...
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...
Asian/Pacific Islanders and Whites, in contrast, comprised only 4.8 percent and 7.9 percent of 2001 AIDS cases (Kaplan, Tomaszewsk...
the assertion and assumption of Peter Duesberg, a molecular scientist who has long held the theory that HIV does not cause AIDS, a...
Declaration of Helsinki, that it is the "duty of the physician to promote and safeguard the health of the people" (414). In fact,...
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...
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...