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Essay On Tinderbox

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Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin’s Tinderbox aims to inform readers about the realities of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. My provocative drawing, Fountain of Blood, illustrates the bustling sex industry and the importance of education and prevention measures in combatting the spread. Education and prevention measures help decrease incidence rates of HIV through reduction of modifiable risk factors and ignorance. This paper will conduct a book review of the themes in Tinderbox by using visual imagery and thorough research of the prevention measures and effects of education in the spread of HIV.
Fountain of Blood seeks to illustrate the themes discussed in Tinderbox. The Fountain of Blood alludes to the fountain in Francistown, Botswana but is also a metaphor for the dangers of the sex industry, a prime mover in the HIV epidemic (Timberg & Halperin, 2012). …show more content…

A study on HIV infections found that accessible sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening, community-directed interventions, sex education and services were the most beneficial (Kessler, Myers, Nucifora, Mensah, Kowalski, Sweeney, Braithwaite, 2013). However these services are not used prominently due to inconvenience, cultural reasons, and distrust towards the programs (Ma, Raymond, Wilson, McFarland, Lu, Ding, Xiao, 2012). These services need to become more community friendly, accessible and safe in order to engage the public (Ma et al., 2012). Governments cannot enforce the usage of these services but early HIV education in schools can be mandated to help eliminate stigmas and encourage usage of these services (Felten, Kok, & Kocken, 2016). Prevention measures work because they target HIV’s modifiable risk factors through education, circumcision, condoms, and a variety of other approaches (Kessler et al., 2013). Adequate prevention measures are needed to prevent negligence and

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