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Essays 271 - 300
overall problem of HIV/AIDs, including current statistics about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in certain populations and the role tha...
of health promotion models. Though a single theory may not provide a complete perspective, the study of several theories can buil...
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...
however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...
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...
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...
them with the behaviors necessary for formulating good health decisions. The target audience for the program are African American ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
country. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between orphans and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and ident...
sufferer by weakening attacking the lymphocytes T Cells1. These are the cells that will usually those that fight infection, when t...
women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...
bodily fluids such as semen and blood, usually through sexual contact or the use of dirty needles for injecting drugs, and is not ...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
16,000 new infections per day (AIDS Weekly Plus, 1997). With figures like these, it is essential that health care providers under...
In five pages 2 articles on HIV afflicted adolescents and their immune systems are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...
of the practitioner in the States. The Canadian argument presented is, that if the patient is not aware that HIV is included in t...