The Intervention Of Safe Sex And Less Drug Use

This article focuses on what comprises an effective and efficient preventative education program as it relates to HIV/STD prevention relative to sexual activity. Techniques of teaching are taught to reinforce the behaviors and activities that lead to the spread of HIV and AIDS.

The program will have a pre-test and post-test with a three-month follow-up. The pre- and post-test will consist questions of knowledge, attitude and one behavioral question. Some questions on these tests would be about knowledge would if the participants know the definition of HIV and one following information about it of what they have read, been told, or their personal comments, providing questions such as if they know about the use of a condom providing protection against HIV, knowing if there are any treatment, and to question if they know anything about confidential HIV testing. For the behavioral question an example would be, in the last three times you had sex how many times was a condom in use. The data collect of this method will be surveys, measurements, and observations. The ones providing the data will be young adult African American woman, the participants. Since this program will be for six months every other Wednesday for one hour long, it will be a total of 14 sessions. The first four session in this program will assess their knowledge in providing the participants clear information about what HIV is, how it can be transmitted, signs/symptoms related to HIV with the short-term effects as well as the long-term effect, the risk and consequences, and prevention such as medication, treatment, contraceptive use with helpful tips how to delay sexual

HIV/AIDS education and counseling’ condom distribution to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases; referrals to substance abuse treatment and other medical and social services distribution of alcohol swabs to help prevent abscesses and other bacterial infections; on-site HIV testing and counseling and crisis intervention; screening for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and other

So, the issue at hand and the recommendation concerning preventive health and counseling prevent sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus begins with the efficacy of risk reduction (sexual behavior), prevention, intervention, and clinician counseling deliver in a variety of settings (clinician or non-clinician).

I think the Brazilian government’s strategies is good, because they are allowing the prevention of contract AIDS, because they are getting closer to a big part of Brazilian people that could be in high risk of contracting or that are already infected with the incurable ailment; however, its necessary that the government makes another strategy for an attack in an effective way. That’s why I think it is necessary to make programs of sexual education to all the Brazilian population especially in the poor sector and the youth, which are the most vulnerable ones.

We all want to see pregnancy and sexual transmitted disease (STD) rates among adolescent become nonexistent. But each year twelve million unfortunate adolescent contract in STD and more than one million teenage girls become pregnant (IDPH). Therefore, the government pushes abstinence-only programs on adolescent in hopes that this would be the solution to this difficult problem. Unfortunately, these programs do very little to stop the increasing rates, but now have only pushed teens to continue in their sexual behaviors, along with denying them the tools to properly protect themselves. Even though research has disproven that abstinence-only programs work, comprehensive programs are still not being used in school. This is because there is an

Half of all new cases of STDs annually are in young men and women between the ages of fifteen and twenty four. Adolescents not only need to learn the importance of practicing safe sex, but also how to be confident. Teaching of this subject could be improved, as mentioned earlier, by beginning to teach STD prevention at an earlier age. Young people are beginning to have sex and younger ages and healthy habits are easier to establish than changing bad habits as stated in the article**. The teaching will be adjusted based on what the individual members of the group want and need to learn. Providing multiple methods of teaching strategies will result in effective leaning. We can immediately evaluate if they audience has learned the material taught during the session and if they can demonstrate skill shown, but only time and follow-up evaluations will show if the group practices STD prevention in the

Because majority of HIV prevention/intervention programs do not adequately address the incidence of HIV in the older adult cohort, this population is at increased risk for the incidence of HIV infection compared to that of the younger generation. Because older adults have preexisting comorbidities, effects of normal aging, and knowledge deficit related to the virus, their cohort would benefit greatly from the program. The program seeks to improve the knowledge of HIV incidence, prevalence, and transmission in the cohort, and seeks to improve thought processes diminishing the stigmas related to HIV as well as introduce risk reduction behaviors to this cohort to decrease the incidence of HIV. The use of module training to increase awareness on susceptibility, educate about factual and age-appropriate information, and incorporating risk reduction structures the program accordingly to support the needs of the cohort. This program also serves as a means of involvement for the cohort to get acquainted within their community. The success of the program will be guaranteed, and will be a great asset towards the 50 and over residents in the Baltimore City

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.

Despite advances in screening and treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) over the last 30 years, HIV remains a significant global issue (World Health Organization [WHO], 2015; Yagoda & Moore, 2016). The United States (US) experienced a brief decline in new HIV cases, but total HIV incidence has failed to decrease meaningfully in the past 25 years (Yagoda &Moore, 2016). According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) (2015), there are approximately 56,000 new cases of HIV per year and that number has been holding steady over the last decade. Current strategies to prevent HIV transmission include antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-infected people, voluntary medical male circumcisions, HIV testing, harm reduction, and behavioral risk reduction (Baeten & Heffron, 2014).

To do that, the first thing to do is to try to prevent the disease from spreading by encouraging people to get tested at least once in their lives if they are low risk and yearly if they are high risk (CDC, 2018). In addition, if they suspect they might be infected with the virus, they should get tested right away. Furthermore, it’s essential for them to know that HIV diagnosis is confidential and by law, you cannot share any of their information without their permission. Many places offer free HIV testing as a preventive part to detect early HIV infection, thus starting early treatment to prevent the spread of HIV. Secondly, HIV education is an essential tool to stop the spread of the disease. Persistent instruction about HIV contamination gives patients HIV disease and their relatives with a more precise comprehension of the disease process, treatment alternatives, self-care, and the most effective method to take an interest in settling on choices identified with treatment and clinical care (Engelke and Schub, 2017). Nationwide, nurse practitioners should focus on educating homosexual and Latinos men about the importance of getting tested at least yearly. In Palm Beach County, since most individuals affected by HIV is heterosexual and African American, and older people, the emphasis should be on these targets. We should encourage them to see their primary care provider at least once a year and

was to put STD prevention programs within the states it would help tremendously. It would help students academically, by taking responsibility for their own health. It would also help reduce sexual risk behaviors and asset development. This would provide more general skills to engage in healthy behaviors (“effective HIV and STD Prevention Programs for Youth”). Although there are Abstinence Only Programs within numerous schools and teach a variety of subjects they are still unlikely to go over important matters that the students need to know. The main topic within these programs is “just say no to sex.” Another topic that is, the only way to prevent STD’s and prevent pregnancy is to stay abstinent. The teachers are less likely to cover birth control, abortion, obtaining contraceptives, STD’s and sexual orientation. The teachers do not think that the message is not getting across to the students affiliated with this program, and believe that the students should start learning about sex at a younger age, and cover the topics; STD’s, correct condom use, and how to resist peer pressure as well as abstinence. There is now 23% of public schools that teach Sex Education that compromise with Abstinence Only programs opposed to 2% in 1988

The goals of implementing our program (providing sexual health education for medically underserved communities) include the following: reducing the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents and young adults adolescents over 2 year period by 15 %, To achieve this goal, our program strives to educate adolescents and young adults about the risks and worse consequences of sexual transmitted infections. Team consisting of physicians to make treatment plans of sexual transmitted infections and health educators will give lectures to educate this age group in order to limit or prevent more sexual transmitted infections.

“Successful HIV prevention and treatment requires evidence-based approaches that combine biomedical strategies with behavioral interventions that are socially and culturally appropriate for the population or community being prioritized for the population or community being prioritized” (Martinez, 2016).

Out of the nineteen public health in Georgia, nine of them had HIV cases rated above the national mean. 50% of the new HIV diagnosed cases are people between the ages of 14 to 30. The youth seems to be the ones highly affected by the disease. These infections concentrated more on the colored people, the poor, the homeless, health challenged and those using drugs. The National AIDS Fund describes the epidemic as, ‘a universal set of social and structural inequities’. Inequities like poverty, illiteracy levels, homophobia, poor health care, and racial prejudices promote the wide discrepancy of the disease effects in the community. The disease is likely to advance into a devastating stage of AIDS since the groups cannot access health care and mostly they cannot achieve the level of treatment required to reduce the effect of the virus on destroying the cells of immune system. To prevent more HIV infections among in youth and promote good health education becomes a significant and most crucial factor. This article looks into some approaches that can be pursued in educating the youth and also some of the ways of reducing the spread of HIV among the youths. The approach is also based in or is in line with the Healthy People 2020 objectives. The core objectives of this initiative are to attain a high-quality life free from injuries and premature death, health equity with no disparities, social and