Comparing Two Studies On Estimated Hiv Incidence And Prevalence

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 50,000 people are infected with HIV each year. In 2010, the most recent year for which this information is available, there were around 47,500 new HIV infections in the United States (p. 1). The population of people with HIV is diverse due to the fact that it does not discriminate. Men and women of any age,

Experts agree that understanding these statistics can help to make the claim that the HIV virus is a heterogeneous one; significantly affecting certain populations more than others. This is especially true for African Americans (Sorvillo 930). However, mere statistical evidence is not enough to effectively declare this a health inequity. Further research into the virus amongst the population must be explored.

Popular culture and mainstream media offer misleading and erroneous explanations for drastic dissimilar impact of HIV/AIDS in minority groups. One

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS is a pandemic problem affecting global health. At the end of 2015, 36.7 million people were living with HIV/AIDS globally. The rate of incidence is more prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa with almost 1 in every 24 adults living with HIV/AIDS. In the united states, HIV/AIDS is a diversified health problem affecting all sexes, ages and races and involving the transmission of multiple risk behavior. However, with the introduction of various prevention programs and antiretroviral drugs, the incidence of HIV/AIDS has reduced.

The research provided me with the information the developing countries have a higher rate of HIV/AIDS infection than highly developed countries. The statistics from “ The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic” show that 36.7 million people in the world have HIV/AIDS, and of the 36.7 million, 19 million are in

HIV is a universal and a pandemic disease has claimed 33 million lives globally in the 1980s. It is approximated that 35 million

Without treatment, about 50 per cent of all people living with HIV will develop AIDS within 10 years after infection. Special risk groups were identified by the CDC and include it: users of injecting drug users and their sexual partners, people with a large number of sexual partners, men who have sex with men and their female partners, persons who exchange sex for money or drugs. The highest growth rates occur among injecting drug users, women and infants born to women in high-risk groups. Sex between men may have a transmission speed of up to one in ten, Depending on sexual practices. The rates of transmission among intravenous drug users are high because a contaminated needle can enter directly the HIV in the bloodstream. Sex workers also have a high risk of contracting and transmitting HIV. HIV / AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is often set in high risk groups before moving on to the population in general. As the transmission mode changes of sex between men and the sharing of needles by intravenous drug users, the rate of HIV among women increases often dramatically, which leads to a greater number of children born with HIV or orphaned by AIDS. It is more likely that it is a widespread epidemic in poor countries, which may lack the infrastructure, money, and large-scale effective political stability for the treatment and prevention of HIV. "It is estimated that 20 to 35 percent of the newborns of infected mothers develop infection by HIV." About 60 percent of AIDS patients are white, 25 percent are black, and 15 percent are Hispanic. "The development of a safe and effective vaccine against HIV is a high priority for the next decade. Other prevention and strategies are crucial to stop the spread of infection by HIV. The majority of people infected with HIV in the United States are not aware that they even have the virus. The efforts of public education about the risks and the precautionary

While a great number of AIDS cases tend to strike the hardest in economically troubled areas, it has proved to be often just as hard fighting disease in more affluent areas. Our community on the Central Coast provides excellent access to healthcare, information on sexually transmitted diseases, and various contraceptives. For that reason we would generally be considered low-risk. However, recent findings show that our community

CDC estimates that 1,218,400 persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection, including 156,300 (12.8%) who are unaware of their infection (CDC, 2014). The overall rate of infection still remains high, this increased rate is also seen in the Asian population. According to the CDC, between 2005 and 2014 the Asian population in the United States grew around 24%, more than three times as fast as the total U.S. population, and within this time period, the number of Asians receiving an HIV diagnosis increased by nearly 70% (CDC, 2014). Although the increase is substantial, Asians still only account for 2% of new HIV diagnoses. Of the HIV incidence, meaning new infection, 86% are men, while 13% are women. Compared to 13% of the people in the United States who are undiagnosed, Asian population is at 21% who are undiagnosed. There are behaviors seen across the spectrum that puts people at risk for contracting and spreading the HIV virus, being undiagnosed is just one of them.

The HIV and AIDS pandemic remains one the most serious development crises in the world (WHO, 2006). Women and children bear a disproportionate share of the burden, and in many settings continue to experience high rates of new HIV infections and of HIV-related illness and death. In 2005 alone, an estimated 540 000 children were newly infected with HIV, with about

Firstly, the surveillance system for HIV/AIDS draws a unique epidemiological picture of magnitude and trends in the prevalence of infection, resource allocation, targeted groups and risk behavior over time. It describes the pattern of transmission of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and other specific sexually transmissible infections. Secondly, It monitors an information cycle for collection and exchange between different public health institutions between clinical and laboratory facilities, infection

According to the CDC, In the United States the prevalence of HIV in adolescents from age 13-24 is estimated to account for 22% of all new cases (cdc.gov 2016). Of those cases, the most new cases occurred among gay and bisexual males. Furthermore young African American and Latino gay and bisexual males have been affected in higher numbers than any other group. Addressing HIV in our youth entails multiple avenues to curtail the rising numbers. Including, but not limited to, education, tools for risk reduction, healthy decisions, effective communication, as well as treatment and care. How did our nation’s youth reach this point? How can change be implemented? The following will discuss the trends and statistics on the prevalence of HIV in our youth as well as the efforts being made to decrease the numbers of newly reported cases.

Individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) are living longer lives and changing the perception of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There has been extensive research conducted on high risk groups for HIV/AIDS but little has been done to research and address the social aspect of aging and HIV/AIDS. It is important to have a more conclusive understanding of HIV/AIDS in the aging population due to the climbing rate of new infection among older American adults aged 50 and greater. Primary themes that will be examined are how the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is associated with older American’s attitudes toward sexual health education, ageism, stigma and mental health. Although

Discussions about HIV/AIDS have changed radically since the disease was first identified in the early 1980s. As physicians and public health workers developed a fundamental understanding of the disease and discovered ways to ameliorate its devastating effects, HIV/AIDS victims coupled hope for recovery with changed lifestyles at least in some socioeconomic sectors (Lane, et al., 2004). At backward looking analysis reveals that he incidence and survival rates of HIV/AIDS continue to be solidly associated with country of residence, economic class, and gender (Lane, et al., 2004).

For the IBBS, a probability based study design was chosen as it generates characteristic estimates for behavioural and biological indicators, at the district, state and national levels. A ‘Domain’, defined as a ‘a geographical unit for which representative estimates were generated for individual HIV risk groups’, was the basic survey unit under the IBBS. In most cases, an individual district was the basic domain (‘Independent domain’), but in cases wherein a particular district did not have enough HRGs to constitute the required sample size, adjoining districts were assembled to form a ‘Composite domain’. The FSW sample size per domain was 400.