Hiv / Aids : An Integral Part Of Society That Shapes The Way We Live And Interact With The

Human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV, is an infectious disease that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) when left untreated. With AIDS, an individual’s immune system is severely compromised which leads to life-threatening infections, cancer, and eventual death. HIV is primarily transmitted via direct blood contact, breast milk, and sexual contact. With the exception of one highly unique case, HIV is incurable but can be suppressed with highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). When HAART was introduced in 1996, HIV/AIDS related deaths have decreased dramatically, and HAART, when used for prophylactic measures (treatment plan also known as PrEP), has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection (Center for Disease Control, 2016).

One solution involves community awareness and forums to raise attention to the issue being presented. The community must know and understand what HIV is and how it affects others before there can be awareness raised for it. People must be able to define what HIV is to prevent it. Workshops, events, and organizations should be formed to ensure that the public understand HIV and know how to prevent. The more people gain knowledge on HIV, the more they will be able to prevent it from occurring. With community awareness, the Orangeburg community would benefit from the information and use that information to outreach to others to inform them on HIV and how to prevent

The battle against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Defiance Syndrome (AIDS) has been devastating, underestimated, and complex. In America, this difficulty surrounding HIV/AIDS is due to the inability of the state to properly educate and protect its citizens from being exposed to this illness. Since the first detection of HIV and AIDS the government aided in the miseducation, stereotypes, and deaths of its citizens by not taking the proper protocols to protect its people. Originally, United States’ government allowed its citizens to believe that HIV and AIDS were strictly related to homosexual relationships. As a result of this misguidance, homophobia increased nationally; thus, shunning the gay community and making it

People with AIDS are concerned about some of their rights that they might lose. Some of the consequences that those with AIDS have are restrictions on international travel, housing, employment, medical care, and health care insurance (Comprehensive). One of the biggest fears of people in the community is acquiring the HIV/AIDS disease. Because of the terrible effects of HIV, community members tend to have some concerns about those with the disease. People who are diagnosed with AIDS are usually highly discriminated against. It can be very difficult for people with AIDS to find a job, because they are constantly being denied (Comprehensive). They also have problems with being restricted or denied access to education, health, and social services (Comprehensive). Governments are held accountable for the way they treat those with HIV/AIDS and how they deal with their rights. The government is responsible for not violating the rights of those affected with HIV/AIDS. There are certain rights that cannot be taken away from those with AIDS. These are the right to be free from torture, slavery, or servitude, the right to a fair trial, and the right to freedom of thought (Gruskin, 2002). There will always be discrimination, but there needs to be a better balance of the protection of those with HIV/AIDS, and the community members, protecting all human

HIV/AIDS is an ongoing epidemic in the United States. The African American population is greatly affected by this due to high risk behaviors such as, unprotected heterosexual contact, injection drug use, unprotected sexual contact, multiple sexual partners and fear of disclosing sexual orientation. There is a great need to provide effective HIV/AIDS prevention education materials to the population, in particular those in the African American population. Prevention education programs, based on curriculums that can be implemented to groups in, clinics, and other community settings have been found to be a promising form of intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors. Although community based programs are the simplest and one of the most efficient routes in providing prevention education to the population, prevention efforts have been shown to be ineffective due to lack of appropriate resources and fear of disclosure.

Have these Issues Been Adequately Addressed in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), and the Implementation Plan?

If having HIV is not hard enough on a person, the experiences of people living with HIV have been made more complex by the increase in criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. Criminalization of non-disclosure does nothing but create more stigma against people with HIV as well as create a deep fear in people living with HIV. People who are living with HIV are made to fear the legal system due to their disease, they are no longer given the right to choose whether or not they disclose to their intimate partners but they must do so in order to avoid being labeled a sex offender or incarcerated. Criminalization is not an effective way to stop the transmission of HIV/AIDS but it is an effective way into scaring people so deeply that they feel like they are left without any human rights, family, friends, or dignity. That being said, saying that criminalization will prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS is like saying that traffic signs will stop people from speeding in regards to non-disclosure, meaning it is not going to happen. Criminal law may be needed in some extreme situations; for example, if a person has intent to transmit HIV to another person, but what is happening more frequently in Canada is that there is more of an expansive use of the criminal law. With this, the “law and order” approach does virtually nothing to stop HIV transmission but what it does do is stigmatize people living with and at risk of HIV, and is undermining proven HIV prevention strategies and

Formally known as HIV-specific laws, these pieces of legislation were, and are still intended to criminalize HIV individuals by penalizing HIV-positive persons who engage in actions that can potentially expose the HIV virus to others (Galletly et al., 2014). The first of these laws were first seen in 1986, and were passed by the state governments of Florida, Tennessee, and Washington (Lehman et al., 2014). The laws were developed due to a belief that they would deter HIV positive people from behaving in a

The conflict perspective can be used to describe and analyze the HIV/AIDS social problem. The conflict theory is simply a theoretical approach that views social problems based on conflicts between two or more groups. In addition, society is divided by social classes which are confrontational, competitive and attempt to exploit one another to gain social status and power. This division can be related to racial and ethnic inequalities, which is often created by prejudice and bias. When we directly evaluate this theory as it relates to HIV and AIDS, it aids in explaining the negative attributes affiliated within certain subordinate groups. These groups often consist of racial and ethnical minorities and live in poverty and is directly linked to high-crime and low-income neighborhoods. Furthermore, this affiliation can be considered a direct result of these groups unfortunate set of circumstances, which are precisely related to consequences administered by our broken system. In addition, we could utilize the conflict theory to search for viable solutions to the ongoing social problem. Some proposed solutions could be modifying social injustice, economic racism, and erroneous laws which unintentionally have a negative impact on racial and ethnic sub-groups.

HIV and AIDS has not only physical effects on the body, but social effects as well. People infected HIV and AIDs have different experiences of the world, compared to others infected by other illnesses. People living with HIV or AIDs have different social lives due to the stigma attached to these diseases, which in turn affects their mental health. People infected with HIV/AIDs are at higher risk of mental disorders, because of the stigma attached, as well as social isolation.

Public Health costs us, as tax payers, a lot of money. Without public health initiatives, diseases such as small pox would still be with us, and other diseases, such as antibiotic- resistant staphylococcus would get out of control and cause sickness and death throughout the country. As taxpayers we rely on our government to ensure that we get “good value” for our money.

The United States displayed a predominant ignorance towards HIV/AIDS that was shocking. It is shameful to know how a country so respected and powerful would belittle minority groups, especially the homosexual community. The first recorded cases of AIDS were commonly found in homosexual men generating a trend that negatively impacted the homosexual community. Many people began to associate the AIDS virus with homosexuals shunning the the group from society. It is saddening the homosexual community were on the brink of acceptance due to the emergence of new laws protecting gay rights. However, this was soon curtailed when they became stereotyped calling the AIDS virus a “gay syndrome.” Additionally, due to this issue the

Social issues facing HIV/AIDS today are as diverse as the people that are affected by the disease. Advocating for a large group of people takes action at the macro human service practice. The goals and intervention strategies will be similar to micro human service and will involve the same strategies to bring justice to human rights for all members of society.

Throughout the history of human, different types of killer diseases occurred. Despite the severity of these diseases people always sought ways to alleviating them. Many of these epidemic diseases occurred as a result of pollution or changes in the environment. Recently, there have been the emergency of the most dangerous and killer diseases many of them are infectious through different ways. Some of the most popular include HIV/AIDS, Ebola among others. However, while researchers and governments were struggling to alleviate and fight against HIV/AIDS there emerged a new form of viral disease that terrified the entire population of the planet. ZIKA virus is an emerging killer disease that has symptoms similar to a very mild dengue fever. This paper therefore is a review of an article entitled “The Viral Polymerase Inhibitor 7-Deaza-2’-C-Methyladenosine Is a Potent Inhibitor of In Vitro Zika Virus Replication and Delays Disease Progression in a Robust Mouse Infection Model”. The paper is intended to highlight the key problem of the research and approach used to address it.After the paper will conduct a SWOT analysis of the approach suggested by the study to address the research question.

When we started this project, we wanted to see how much the average high school student knew about HIV/AIDS- ourselves having minimal knowledge of the disease. In order to do so, we created a quiz and charted the results. After reviewing the results of the quiz, we realized that this ISP is giving us the platform to inform and enlighten ourselves and others of this serious global phenomenon. The quiz consisted of basic questions regarding HIV/AIDS and the ratio of correct to incorrect answers was mostly even with a few irregularities (see Chart One and Two). This project will correct the incorrect and help raise awareness of the disease that is sweeping the nation.