The Country Of Guatemal Hiv And Aids

HIV has affected people all across the world. HIV comes with physical and mental symptoms. The body symptoms include skin flaking off, being dry, skin peeling off (Saliba 23) , fingernails falling off (32), and weight loss (14). Mentally it is hard to sleep, people become weak, and are tired all the time (23). People all across the world are infected with this disease, and the problem with this is the fact that most do not even know they have it. The most people who are infected each year are African Americans, gays, or bisexuals. 10,315 African Americans were infected in 2015. The U.S.A. has estimated about 1.1 million are infected with the disease. Equally to about 12,333 deaths happened in 2014 from AIDS related diseases, and 6,721 deaths from AIDS directly. Although there are a large amount of people getting infected, on the other hand eighteen percent of the population with HIV is declining since 2008-2014 (“U.S. Statistics”). In the world about 33.2 million people worldwide have HIV, with 22.5 million people in sub Saharan Africa are living with this condition, one out of nine people who live in South America have HIV or AIDS (Saliba 8).

This large population has dealt with and suffered from several detrimental diseases. Even before the 2010 earthquake, nearly half the causes of deaths have been attributed to HIV/AIDS,

Haitian Red Cross and other organizations work hard to help and educate people about AIDS/HIV, safe sexual practice and give access to condoms. All the efforts bring optimistic results. Over the past decade, new HIV infection rate decreased by 54%.

Cuba has built a health care system with preventative medicine as the foundation using education as a tool to reduce the effect of inequities in the social determinants of health 9. As a result, they were able to develop aggressive HIV/AIDS policy to target high risk populations and limit HIV transmissions. Cuba has a 0.1% prevalence rate of HIV and death due to AIDS is estimated to be less than 200 people 10,11. Transmission via intravenous drug use and blood transfusions is rare with 99% of cases resulting from sexual contact with an infected person. Men account for 81% of the HIV positive population

The first stakeholders being brought to attention is non-governmental organizations (NGOS). Non- governmental organization are private organizations that propose activates to relative suffering and promote the interest of the poor. NGOs offer a wide range of prevention care support and rehabilitation s project in HIV/AIDS related areas. Their main job includes lobbying and advocacy’s skills protected environment and provide basic care. In pertains to AIDS/HIV the international aids society is the world’s leading independent association of HIV professionals. Roughly about 14,000 members that provides services to more than 190countries. The NGOS groups services a social problem on a national scope.

HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a global issue that is classified as a pandemic by the CDC and WHO, however an epidemic is on the rise at an alarming rate in Atlanta, Georgia. This cluster in downtown Atlanta is being contributed to several factors, including poverty, a greater percentage of African-American residents and behaviors that increase the risk of HIV, including unsafe gay sex and injection drug use. Approximately half of newly diagnosed HIV patients in Atlanta have unknowingly progressed to full-blown AIDS, according to testing conducted by Grady Hospital (Archer, 2015). An alarming amount of those patients, approximately 8%, reside within the same 30303 zip code as the hospital itself

The Center for Disease Control provides leadership, guidance, and research to help control the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic by working alongside the communities on a state and national level. They are also partners with other countries abroad in research, surveillance and evaluation of activities among the world’s population. The activities monitored are critical to CDC due to the estimated 1.1 million Americans infected with the disease. Some of these infected populations do not know they are infected and the number increases each year.

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.

For example, according to Kaiser Family Foundation, (2014), the target of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is to end the epidemic by 2030 and have 90% of the population know their HIV status and be treated to decrease the viral load. Additionally, the United States has provided funding through various initiatives such as the Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic (LIFE) in 1999 (which helped 14 countries in Africa), International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative (2002), PEPFAR in 2003, which authorized approximately $15 billion and reauthorized for an additional 5 years in 2008 for up to $48 billion (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). So far, global efforts have contributed to a significant decline (by 13.6 million) in AIDS-related death, stabilization of the epidemic, and access to treatment (ART; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). However, there are still many countries with only 20% receiving the treatment they

The WHO global health sector strategy on HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has identified four strategic directions to guide countries’ HIV response to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of halting the spread of HIV/AIDS. A core element of strate- gic direction one was the elimination of new HIV infections in children.2

Education is one of the most important methods of implementing HIV/AIDS programs. It is a vital component in reducing both the impact and further increase of the HIV/AIDS infection However due to the large number of citizens infected with the virus, and economic status of families means there is a dramatic decline in school enrolment (AVERT

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].

A little over three decades ago, reports emerged of a new virus that was outbreaking in parts of the United States. Within the first twelve months of these reports, the disease sprung up among particular people groups such as homosexual men, patients with hemophilia, intravenous drug users and blood-transfusion recipients. Shortly after, an epidemic of AIDS emerged in Central Africa, particularly affecting women. Little was it known at that time that these small handful of cases would eventually multiply into the tens of millions of cases that makes HIV/AIDS one of the greatest epidemics in the modern history of global health. This essay seeks to demonstrate that although HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest health threats to the international community, interventions can be created which allow the successful treatment, prevention, care and support for communities facing the pandemic.

In the year 2000, the UN established eight ‘international development goals’ regarding: poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV and other diseases, environmental sustainability and global partnership. (Nations, n.d.). For this paper, the HIV pandemic shall be analysed. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that serves as root for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS which is a disease that compromises the human immune system supressing it and leaving the body open for other diseases and

Aside from the nature of HIV itself, social factors have also contributed to the prevalence of AIDS. These factors include ignorance or misinformation, deficiency of resources, apathy and malpractices. HIV and AIDS awareness is important in preventing more cases of infection and in managing already existing cases. Most people do not have enough knowledge about HIV and AIDS thus they do not know how to protect themselves. Different campaigns aimed at educating the people include the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) HIV and AIDS program by the DOH and the Text HIV 28504 by the Philippine National AIDS Council and Globe Communications. In spite of these efforts, the prevalence of HIV continues to rise. Concerning the resources allotted for the HIV-infected population, the Department of Health seeks Php 600-million funds. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer through Inquirer.net, DOH ex-Secretary Jannette Garin said that the cases of HIV in the Philippines will reach 133,000 in 2022 and the out-patients’ HIV package will cost the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Php 4-Billion (Inquirer.net, 2015). Another concern is the accessibility of Antiretroviral Therapy and Testing Centers for HIV. Although testing for HIV and acquisition of ART is free in the Philippines, it is a different case for many countries especially for those in the Africa. An aggravating factor too is that AIDS patients suffer from the