Project Sustainability : An Effective Investment Of Funds For The Global Fund

The writer on the contrary points out that the initiatives have not achieved the required target because some of them advocate for things which are not practical. Instead, she proposes that emphasis should be laid on educating people about safe sex and not trying to restrict and control individual liberty supposedly for the greater good. She believes the disease is not about poverty and gender related issues, it is behavior change. Many people in African countries get the virus because of having unsafe sex with multiple partners. This is why the rates of infection are not declining despite the billions being spent.

Our second team project answers five questions about Case Study #2, Preventing HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Thailand and Chapter 10, Introduction to Global Health. This project will talk about the characteristics of the high-risk population that permitted this intervention to work and the implications of this for replication in other settings. It will explain why Thailand is a model for programs in other countries. Since cost-effectiveness assessment was never done for this program, it will evaluate the assessments that should have taken into account in terms of costs measured.

It was interesting to learn that the young lady working for the clean works organization was formally an intravenous drug user by which she admirably commented on how the organization has changed her life for the better and by volunteering her time at clean works it has given her the opportunity to help others. While, I was in charge of running the clean works mobile unit I distributed educational brochures, contraceptives, and other items to reduce harm and increase client safety in the community. Taking into consideration that HIV is spread by having unprotected sex and/or sharing needles or syringes with someone who is infected, I felt very productive in knowing that I was providing valuable services to reduce the rate of infection. With my current knowledge surrounding the issue of HIV/ STD’s, the company was able to benefit from this service. At the end of the day, I met the Theoretical Base for Practice by reaching out to the community to educate and provide information that I have learned from research and in NURS 340. Previous learning experience on HIV and it’s prevalence in the community has heightened my awareness about the disease. Knowing the prevalence of HIV and how it is spread to others, is crucial in providing education to the

Thesis: HIV/AIDS has proven itself to be one of the most significant health issues present in the world today, the most successful manner of addressing HIV/AIDS is The Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In order to complete these tasks, I ventured to a nonprofit organization entitled HIV Alliance located in Eugene, Oregon. Once nestled at the Alliance, I began my search for a project that would be appropriate for such an undertaking. It was of the utmost importance that the time invested at HIV Alliance was well spent and that my capstone project would be a benefit to the organization, the public, and also myself.

While the numbers of cases are increasing, China is taking action to educate and take care of the population (McGivering, http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific). According to The Beijing Review, one action China has taken is educating the rural migrant workers (24-25). These workers attended a show that promotes HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness; they are also given brochures and CDs. Sex and HIV/AIDS have been taboo topics in China and most people knew little about safe sex practices or what HIV/AIDS was. Through this program the employees of the construction company can be educated on the issue, and reach about forty million people, according to the data from the All-China Federal Trade Unions, ACFTU. There is also a required two hour AIDS awareness training in the pre-employment training for rural migrant workers in Xi’an of Shaanix Province and free HIV tests are offered to them as well. The Chinese government has also set up programs to educate high risk groups such as the sex workers and homosexuals, and AIDS prevention programs have also been introduced to college students (Jianhua 24-25). While educating the population is an important measure,

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of people in the world living with HIV/AIDS reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since there is currently no vaccine to prevent the spread of the infection, there have been countless attempts in the past to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are multiple ways of infection spread in Sub-Saharan Africa. People are contracting the disease through, drug use, sexual relations, giving birth, and blood-to-blood contact. With so many ways to contract the infection it makes the prevention of spreading the infection so difficult, especially in such a low-income country. These challenges have not stopped many scientists, educators, and health-care professionals create interventions to try and stop the wildfire, that is the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub- Saharan Africa. Most interventions have failed and some have helped. There are a huge amount of factors that need to be carefully thought about when creating an intervention. What looks good on paper may not work for the culture of a country. Making all people in sub- Saharan Africa listen, understand and act on a plan is nearly impossible.

Those presently in high levels of leadership such a political leaders, community leaders, all health-care workers, and celebrities possess the power to influence the public’s perception in positive or negative ways. Thus, education plays a vital role when combating the stigma that surrounds HIV and AIDS, it helps those who are unfamiliar to gain a better understanding of the disease. For example, in Tanzania, a community based organization developed a training program to educate community leaders, staff, and those living with HIV to recognize and help reduce the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS. Over a two year period, the results showed an increase in awareness to recognize discrimination and stigmatization. It also, assisted in decreasing “stigmatizing attitudes associated with shame and blame at end-line evaluation among those exposed and not exposed to the intervention activities.” Unfortunately, the program did not yield the anticipated results to reduce a community wide stigma, it did however, notice a slight marginal decrease, “… those who received the training noticed [a positive] change in their own behavior and leadership.”

Just as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. An ever-growing AIDS epidemic is not inevitable; yet, unless action against the epidemic is scaled up drastically, the damage already done will seem minor compared with what lies ahead. This may sound dramatic, but it is hard to play down the effects of a disease that stands to kill more than half of the young adults in the countries where it has its firmest hold—most of them before they finish the work of caring for their children or providing for their elderly parents. Already, 18.8 million people around the world have died of AIDS, 3.8 million of them children. Nearly twice that many—34.3 million—are now living with HIV, the virus [9].

In today’s world it seems as if people and society care more about how people dress and how they look ignoring what’s around them. In reality, many countries are facing problems that seem to be out of their reach, and the countries simply cannot control nor fight the problem. One of many large global health issues is HIV/AIDs. Although the virus exists in many places all around the world, it is affecting and impacting poor, undeveloped countries the most, for example Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is facing this epidemic in which many of its people are suffering from the virus HIV/AIDS. There are many methods in which a person can get infected. HIV/AIDS is also affecting the countries, but most

Almost twenty-five years ago, if someone had heard the words HIV/AIDS, it would have stirred up feeling of dreads. One could not imagine that someone who is coping with the disease would be their friend or someone that would get invited to spend the night because of the fear of this visitor coughing on, or sneezing near them. The objective is to look at the physiological and social aspect concerning this disease process that those with the disease encounter and what has society done to Educate people about the disease. An estimated 44,073 was diagnosed with HIV in 2014 and 1 out of 8 is living with it and is unaware. The global HIV/AIDS epidemic has killed an estimated 21.8 million people and another 36.1 million are living with HIV infection.

Interventions for stigma reduction have been introduced in the past, but the majority of them were only based on information provision about HIV/AIDS. We now know that simply providing information is not sufficient in decreasing stigma (Harma et al.,2006). Community-based interventions and targeting human rights is necessary to get to the root of not only

Funding for the global HIV and AIDS response program in 2013 was relatively the highest with 19.1 billion US dollars disposed at middle and low level income states. However, the process of gathering resources towards this program has improved significantly.

When volunteers do go Africa to do education, what and how are they teaching? The very first step should be teaching the proper use of condoms. This alone could help slow the spread of HIV however it will not stop the spread completely. Another myth that is very hard to believe exist is that infected males belief is that if they have intercourse with a virgin they will be cured of the AIDS virus. Getting volunteers to educate men about the false claims of this myth is very hard to do. This woeful myth leads to the rapes of very young girls to include babies as young as six months old. This has taken years and years to spread and will continue to spread until people are educated.

One significant study that reports on negative effects of social services for people living with HIV was conducted in Malawi. The author chose to qualitatively analyze the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa by talking to the people of the region (Myroniuk, 2011). A unique aspect of this research is that it focuses on Malawians that have received higher levels of education. This was done because citizens that are secondary and tertiary graduates are heavily involved in the distribution of HIV related services. The need for a study that focuses on citizen with high education levels is supported of research that discusses the prevalence of HIV services that are run by citizen and the lack of prior research into their experiences with the service and its impact (Burlew et al., 2014). Myroniuk (2011) conducted interviews with citizen that met his educational requirements from different areas of Malawi. This study was made up of 38 participants and various aspects of