“Today more than 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and one fifth of Americans do not know they are infected with the virus” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010, para. 2). “ The current prevalence per 100,000 population as of December 31, 2010 are 144.2 per 100,000 residents in Ohio, 333.4 per 100,000 residents in Cuyahoga County, and 763.1 per 100,000 residents in Cleveland” (Cleveland Department of Public Health, 2011, p. 1). The prevalence rates of the City of Cleveland are twice the level of Cuyahoga County and 5.3 times greater than Ohio prevalence. In Cleveland, the prevalence levels for Black/African America non-Hispanic residents are 824.8 per 100,000 population, about twice that for White non-Hispanic with HIV/AIDS at 438.3 per 100,000 population (Cleveland Department of Public Health, 2011).
Jatorin Jackson African American Studies Dr. Bridges April 2012, 29th Aids and HIV in the black Community HIV & AIDS: Rising Infection Rate in the African American Community.African Americans who live in low-income communities are more likely to engage in unprotected sexual activities than those who live in higher-income communities. When the epidemic finally reached noticeable proportions in the early 1980s, a disease that knows no gender, racial, or class boundaries has created a devastating impact on society. This disease has afflicted society in virtually epidemic proportions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, there are an estimated 1 million Americans infected with AIDS and 40,000-80,000
The Haitian government estimates that 230,000 people died, about 300,000 were injured and 1 million were made homeless out of a population of 10 million. 250,000 buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. For any country, this would have been a major disaster. However, as a very poor nation, Haiti didn’t have the resources of money to help themselves, therefore, the relied heavily on international aid. On Tuesday 17 January 1995 at 5:46, the Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake hit Kobe, Japan, and it was not only powerful (7.2 magnitude on the Richter scale), but with the epicentre only 20 km southwest
The most severe type being Plasmodium falciparum. This type is accredited with the majority of deaths due to malaria this parasite is transmitted by the mosquito bite. These parasites once in the body make their way to liver where they multiply and infect other red blood cells and travel throughout the body exploding the red blood cell and infecting new blood cells each time a new one ruptures. Symptoms. The incubation period is usually ten (10) days to four (4) weeks after the individual has been bitten by an infected female mosquito.
Ebola killed 90% of infected people. C. In the latest news about Ebola here in the states I have found. 1. A outbreak started in West Africa and two Americans got infected with Ebola. 2.
Particularly, southern and western African countries such as, Congo, Burundi, Tanzania and Gambia, Burkina-Faso, Togo and southern part of Madagascar. c) What is the monthly death toll of children by malaria? In what age range are most children that are killed by the disease? (1pt) Around 15000 children are killed each month by malaria globally and most of the victims are children age 5 or younger. d) What were the two drawbacks
Black Women with HIV Nur/440 Health Assessment and Promotion of Vulnerable Population March 12th, 2010 Black Women with HIV African American women are disproportionately affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) compared to any other ethnic groups (CDC, 2007, para. 1). Blacks in general are more affected than their white counterparts. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “black females aged 13 years and older accounted for 66% of the HIV/AIDS diagnosis among women.” (2007, para. 7).
Nurses and health care providers implement aspects from a few different canons into the process of aiding in infection control and prevention of cholera in Haiti. Cholera is an extremely deadly disease, as of 2010 it affects 3-5 million individuals and causes about 100,000-130,000 deaths a year. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae which results in a diarrhea illness (Kraft, 2010). “This bacterium can enter a human’s internal environment through different pathways, with consuming dirty water and food being the most prevalent reason for acquiring this disease” (Kraft, 2010). In 2010, 303 people passed away due to the cholera outbreak in Haiti, and over 4,700 individuals were treated for this illness (Cholera Prevention Efforts, 2010).
Compared to the rest of Britain, it is shocking. Around 350 intravenous drug addict take fatal overdoses in the whole of England and wales each year. If London’s death rate was the same as Glasgow’s, more than 1,000 youngsters would die each year – three every day. [1] Also, the weather has an
The second type of sleeping sickness is called Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense generally affects east Africa. . Both diseases are a parasitic disease caused by a blood meal from the tsetse fly in which the mammal acts as the host. Currently, about thirty thousand humans are infected with the disease and counting, this is not including mammals such as cows that are also very susceptible to the disease. The largest infected population of African sleeping sickness is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking over eighty percent of the cases.