DATE: March 2003 ,ABC-CLIO, Incorporated In 2009, black women accounted for 30% of the estimated new HIV infections among all blacks. Most (85%) black women with HIV acquired HIV through heterosexual sex. The estimated rate of new HIV infections for black women was more than 15 times as high as the rate for white women, and more than three times as high as that of Latina women. At some point in their lifetimes, an estimated 1 in 32 black women will be diagnosed with HIV infection. CDC and its partners are pursuing a high-impact prevention approach to advance the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and maximize the effectiveness of current HIV prevention methods.
In 2008 34,766 people where diagnosed with HIV in New Jersey. With that number so high it is hard to believe that, only 58 percent of sexually active teenagers use condoms, according to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey . The Camden County College administrations decision to put in the dispensers is not a new idea. In Missouri condom dispensers where added to MU residence halls as an implementation of Sexual Health and Safety Products Initiative. The condoms are free and are packaged with an instructional health safety pamphlet.
Most cases are from international exposure during traveling. In 1989-91 there were 55,622 cases of measles in the US. There were 123 deaths. Measles was more prevalent in Hispanic and Blacks. Cause of the outbreak was a decreased vaccination rate.
However, unlike with abstinence-only education, it is acknowledged that many adolescents sill still have sexual relations. There are also discussions about contraception, which is largely ignored in abstinence-only models. (ASA) According to records from the Center for Disease control and prevention, 870,000 pregnancies happen each year with young women aged 15-19, and about 30000000 cases of STDs are reported each year among 10-19 years old. (APA 1) HIV is contracted in more than half of cases before the age of 25. (APA 1) Because of facts like this, it is important that adolescents are taught how to protect themselves.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of 1999 put out a report on AIDS. They established that 751,965 people both living and dead contracted AIDS in the U.S. since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Of them about 50 percent were men who engaged in sex with other men, 28 percent were IV drug users. 6 Percent more were men who had sex with other men and used IV drugs. While less than 2 percent contracted AIDS through blood transfusions and hemophiliac medicine.
Scott Anderson 2/18/09 Writing 160, Trupiano Do you think that rap music glamorizes drug use? Through recent research I have found an article about a study on the glamorization of drugs, University of California- Berkeley; New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades. Denise Herd, associate professor in the division of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health, and a team of hers conducted this study. During the study Herd and her team looked at the lyrics to the top 341 rap songs from 1979 to 1997 – as determined by Billboard and Gavin music rating services. Researchers involved with the experiment examined the songs for mention of drugs, behavior and contexts surrounding the mention of drugs, as well as attitudes and consequences stemming from the use of drugs.
A Whisper of AIDS The reality of AIDS is brutally clear to those who are infected, but to those who are not it always seems like a distant whisper. Living with AIDS is not easy nor is it something the world should take likely but it does. Each year 63,000 Americans are newly infected with the virus but mainly people from the ages of 18 through 25. A white, mother named Mary Fisher used her courage and compassion to tell the world her story. In this essay I analyze the rhetorical situation of “A Whisper of AIDS” article and her use of pathos, logos and ethos appeal.
Running Head: AFRICAN AMERICAN HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS: ADDRESSING STIGMA AND BETRAYAL African American Heterosexual Woman and HIV/AIDS: Addressing Stigma and Betrayal Abstract The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been around for the last twenty years. In the beginning in America, those most affected by HIV/AIDS were gay white men and intravenous drug users. But the populations affected by the disease have expanded to include Black men and women. Consider that the number of African American women infected through heterosexual sex is the largest growing infected population and that the numbers are rising disproportionately. Many factors account for this, the main one being betrayal from the men in their lives who engage in sexual
The most common STD’s affecting the Aboriginal population is syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Statistics show that about 1,207 per 100, 000 of the Indigenous population are infected with chlamydia in comparison to 95 per 100,000 of the non- Indigenous populations. In 2001, the Australian Northern Territory had the highest rate of infection among people aged between 15- 19 years and majority of these infections occurred in Aboriginal teenagers. The pregnancy rate for female teenagers of the Indigenous origins is five times greater in comparison to those of a non-Indigenous origin. The use of condoms are proven effective to protect from the contraction of an STD and the prevent un- wanted pregnancies but, due to the cultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors and beliefs, the use of condoms in Aboriginal communities are quite little.
On its ninth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, the DEA collected 309 tons of unwanted prescription drugs at 5,495 sites throughout the country. This brought the total amount of drugs collected in four years to 2,411 tons.3 The Medicine Abuse Project is a five-year action campaign that aims to prevent half a million teens from abusing medicine by the year 2017. The campaign provides comprehensive resources for parents and caregivers, law enforcement officials, health care providers, educators and others so that everyone can take a stand and help end medicine abuse. You can take the pledge on their website and be one of nearly 10,000 advocates who have already committed to fighting this epidemic.5 Another effort to promote awareness and prevention is PEERx. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) developed PEERX, an online educational campaign, to discourage abuse of prescription drugs among teens.