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    Is Hiv Safe Sex Practices?

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    health care providers to identify and overcome barriers to discussions with patients related to HIV risk behaviors. Health care providers may find the topic difficutl. Many providers may find it difficult to prioritize discussions related to safer sex practices with patients because of time constraints because routine patient care visits for people living with aides last for approximately 15 to 30 minutes (Mayer et al., 2004). Some providers may feel uncomfortable about discussing HIV risks with

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    Sex is being exploited everywhere and it's getting out of control. Deadly sex was a scary reality that few people were aware of in the 1980's and 1990's during the AIDS epidemic in the United States. An outbreak occurred because people decided to ignore the problem when few cases were reported at that time and now; it really become a real struggle for the human race. But also because of this outbreak, people realized the benefits of condoms and increased use it in order to protect themselves from

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    Did you know that sex toys are not regulated by the government for safety? That means that manufacturers can use materials that are not always safe, especially when used near the delicate tissue of your genitals. Sex toys may include mineral oil, toxic paints or glazes, phthalates, or other chemicals that are known to cause cancer, birth defects, and hormonal changes without your realization. Does that mean you should be afraid or avoid buying sex toys? Not at all! You just need to be informed so

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    For many years now, individuals in all states have been attempting to teach teenagers about safe sex. Administrators have designed special classes and foundations worldwide in order to help out with this subject. As said by K4Health, “The term ‘condom’ first appeared in print in 1717, in an English publication on syphilis, although its origin still remains uncertain” (Stryker). The reason why schools should be giving teenagers condoms is because most teenagers do not tell their parents that they

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    Safe sex is a priority to eliminate sexually transmitted diseases. Anyone is at risk, although young adults are vulnerable due to specific behaviors. Kanekar, Sharma and Bennett (2015) report, “Young adults engage themselves in unsafe sexual behaviors exposing themselves to getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and/or Human Immunodeficiency virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (p. 90). The importance of self-protection and limiting negative behavior, aids in prevention of disease. The

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    At birth, a newborn is brought out into a new world outside the comforts of their mother’s womb and nearly each one has their sex characteristics examined by an obstetrician. A gender identity is given to them based on their physical characteristics in which they are most often than not, expected to carry for the rest of their lives, for better or for worse. From early on in their lives, their caregivers may rear the child based on the gender identity for what is socially acceptable and expected

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    ‘It’ first appeared in 1981 in the United States of America. Since then ‘it’ has only grown larger and by the end of year 2006, some 1,106,400 people in US were living with ‘it’ and around 21% were undiagnosed. Some 56,300 people become infected with ‘it’ in 2006 alone. ‘It’ killed 14,561 people in the US and its dependent areas in 2007 and some 583,298 people have succumbed to ‘it’ as of 2007 in US and the death toll is rising every passing day. (CDC. HIV Prevalence Estimates—United States

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    classes. They see the dispensers every time they walk into the bathrooms. This makes the idea of sex ever-present in their daily environment. So students will be more likely to choose to engage in “safe sex”. After that, they may start to underestimate the risk and build up the feeling of invincibility that is commonly felt among teenagers. However, even if they were to continue using condoms, “safe sex” is truly nothing more than an illusion. There are many physical risks from sexual intercourse

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    Discussion My results confirmed that the intervention is effective as far as with the learning materials and the classes but as far as for the practicing of safe sex and less drug use, it is not effective enough. From previous research it was stated that “after the intervention, the amount of protected sexual acts increased for all partners (and especially HIV-negative partners) among participants who received the in-person intervention. Also participants who received the in-person intervention had

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    game to house security, I personally do not have a true reason to own one. Owning a gun has much more responsibility than I care to have by spending a fair amount of money and time for an item that has little to no use for me and would not make me safe. The legality of owning a gun far exceeds the mental health of the owner, few things non-gun owners know and what all gun owners should know. A lot of gun owners will say that non-gun owners have little say as to why one should not own guns, well I

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