Knowledge and Awareness of HIV/AIDS among Women in India

Next, a very useful way to stay STD free is to know your status. Most students today have no clue they are infected and unknowingly pass it on to partners or spouses. The government has made available health clinics where check up’s to know your status on STD’s are free. Clinics are also places where treatment can be given, if a certain STD is found and is treatable. Many students are embarrassed or scared to know their status and would rather just live their lives, not knowing their status. This mindset among citizens is very selfish, which can lead to the danger of others. In the sense of a woman knowing her status, she will be able to determine if birth is still an option if a certain STD has affected her fertility. Offspring’s are also kept safe, so parents can make wise decisions on whether diseases would be passed on off

In today’s world we seem to put aside things that we consider no longer a threat. Well we are wrong to do this, because HIV/AIDS still affects over 5.4 million people that are walking around with this infection or full blown AIDS. They are friends, Criminals, neighbors, and even children attending school, etc. So, why do we think it is ok to not worry about a problem that does not have a cure, but only a life time of meds? Within this qualitative research method, we will explore Sexual risk, there or the Measures, Sexual risk, method, demographics, HIV/AIDS risk and may add other areas as they relate to this study.

To address the communication problem, we must understand that there have been many alternative names that human-beings have given to HIV/AIDS and the amount of information and knowledge of the sexually transmitted disease has gone into overload since the huge epidemic, primarily during the twentieth century. This overload of information has caused many to disregard the issues and as an ending result caused many to focus on the issue and factors associated with HIV/AIDS as much as many once did in the past. Although HIV/AIDS no longer dominate the headlines, we must wonder are health professionals and AID advocates still giving out all the clear signs because it is apparent that HIV/AIDS are still a danger to society.

Sexual education teaches adolescents about the use of birth control, their bodies, STD’s, and pregnancy. Due to the awareness of sexual education, adolescents are more careful about sexual intercourse. The pregnancy rate has reached the lowest in modern era between 1990-2010. It declined to 51% pregnancies per 1000 females ages 14-19 to 57.4%. This is the lowest recorded since 1973. Sexual education was not offered in schools until 1983 and many people had close to no knowledge about the options. Even though teens today are aware of their options today, they do not take proper precautions.

Gender differences and its inevitable double standard are apparent among young women and men when it comes to practicing safe sex in order to protect against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Something different is expected from each gender, and men continue to possess the sexual hegemony that they have for centuries. Men are expected to give full disclosure of sexual history to their female partner and women are expected to have no sexual

The objectives of the study are to assess the knowledge of Secondary schools students on Sexuality Education, to assess the types of Sexually Transmitted Infections, to state the need for Adolescents Friendly health services and to suggest methods of prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) among the adolescents.

15. Women and HIV related MDGs, its target and impact of HIV to achieve the target

The emphasis of this study was on the effects caused by sexually transmitted diseases of women’s fertility. This program has five main messages that it stresses including: informing people about the risks of engaging in sexual intercourse with multiple partners, encouraging the use of condoms, decreasing the delay between infection and consultation, treating every sexual partner of the infected individual, and educating health professionals about sexually transmitted diseases. The intended receivers of this program were young people, ages fifteen to thirty, because they are at the highest risk; however, all of the population was exposed to the campaign in some way. This program has many benefits some of which include free screening to minors, free distribution of condoms, the widespread messages that the media conveyed, and the various forms of educational tools used by health

Appropriately, 1.7 billion people, about one-third of the world’s total population, are between the ages of 10 and 24, with the vast majority living in developing countries (Creel and Jerry, 2002: 1). As they mature, young women aged 15-24 years are increasingly exposed to reproductive health risks such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancy and childbirth (Creel and Jerry, 2002: 1). Moreover young women, especially adolescents, are at higher risk of morbidity and mortality associated with pregnancy and childbirth. The risk is much higher when pregnancy is unintended while most pregnancies to young girls in sub-Saharan Africa are unintended or mistimed. In Ethiopia 28% of adolescents aged 15–19 and 24% of young women

Knowledge of STDs does not have to influence the sexual behavior. Most adolescents are ignorant on how STDs transmit. Lack of sexual information is the main cause of the increase in sexual activity among the youth. Many male and female youth ignore the physiological and psychological development of their bodies. This research aims to examine the sexual knowledge and behavior of adolescents towards the subject matter, STDs, to determine some factors including age, sex, and family status affecting the involvement of the respondents in sexual acts (Oncel et. al., 2011).

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) threaten nearly everyone in the modern environment. However, with the introduction of the condoms and an intense campaign to adopt a healthy behavior can salvage the situation. Apart from the STDs, it is important for the society to protect the society against the worst scourge, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). According to Helweg-Larsen and Collins (1994), condoms can rarely prevent the infection of STDs and HIV, but it can reduce the risk of the disease and unplanned pregnancies. It is also evident that the fatal prognosis of the human immunodeficiency virus infection has encouraged the use of condoms. The intervention program would persuade the people to change their healthy behaviors by adopting the use of condoms in reducing the risk of STDs and HIV infections.

There are Health disparities in Botswana and the United States. The lack of information and misinformation about reproductive health has caused issues with women and their health. The main issue that was found was the prevalence in of STI’s, especially HIV. It is continuing to increase in the number of people infected. The purpose of the paper is to explore some reasons why the issues are continuing to arise and also suggestions on how to combat them. Through research it was found that many social aspects could be correlated to the overall reason of not being sexually healthy. This paper will start with giving general statistics that will describe each population, followed by some key issues found in the research and conclude

Several studies have explored HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of healthcare workers in developing countries. Results revealed existence of anxiety and fear of contagion accompanied by lack of knowledge on HIV transmission and methods of prevention (Mbanya et al., 2001; Walusimbi and Okonsky, 2004; Oyeyemi et al., 2006). Nurses attitudes towards patients with HIV/AIDS have been shown to indicate negative and discriminatory behaviors (Mbanya et al., 2001; Oyeyemi et al., 2006; Reis et al., 2005), while fewer studies have pointed to more empathic attitudes (Walusimbi and Okonsky, 2004). The lack of a vaccine or cure for HIV/AIDS makes information, education and communication (IEC) programs the only available approach for combating the pandemic (International Institute for Educational Planning/UNESCO, 2003). The positive impact of these programs on HIV/AIDS KAP has been previously reported (Uwakwe, 2000; Ezedinachi et al., 2002). It is imperative for nurses to be knowledgeable about HIV/ AIDS transmission, prevention and treatment in order to maintain quality of care while coping with a universal increase in workload (Mazloomy and Baghianimoghadam, 2008). No empirical data exists on the knowledge and attitudes of nurses towards HIV/AIDS at Kasr El Aini Teaching Hospital of Cairo University. Hence the aim of this study was to assess the basic knowledge of these nurses as regard HIV/AIDS and its available

“Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems (WHO, 2015)”. “Various methods can be used to carry out epidemiological investigations: surveillance and descriptive studies can be used to study distribution; analytical studies are used to study determinants (WHO, 2015)”.This paper discusses about epidemiology of HIV infection, including factors that contribute the development of the disease, epidemiologic triangle, role of community health nurse and the national organization that address the communicable disease.

The statistics in the research point out the connection between age, urban or rural background as well as education. In this sense, young females, aged 20 to 24, coming from an urban background, were more prone to become infected with STDs than younger women from the rural area. Furthermore, the article points out the connection between the percentage of women infested with STDs and their marital