One group in particular is contracting and dealing with the disease at an alarming rate. African American women are contracting the disease 15 times higher than that of their white counter parts and 4 times higher than that of Hispanic women (El-Bassel N). Although the disease can affect anybody, why is a specific group targeted more than any other group? African American women are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The lack of prevention interventions that address African American women plays a critical role as to why the epidemic continues to spread.
Initially, it diagnosed as a rare form of pneumonia that occurred in homosexual men and then later as a rare form of cancer (Fan, Aids Science, and Society.p.3). Yet, its effects became so devastating that there were more that 641, 00 cases if AIDS reported correctly in the United States between 1981 and 1997 (Fan, Aids Science and Society P. 4). With similar details, author Randy Shilts, addresses those issues in his book, And The Band Plays On, provide a substantial depiction of the AIDS
Community Health and Population Focused Nursing C228 SZT Task 2 August 1, 2014 Measles p. 2 Measles, also known as Rubeola is a highly contagious acute viral illness. It is caused by a virus in the paramyxovirus family. In 1953, 549,000 measles cases were reported in the United Stated, along with 495 measles deaths, annually. Although 549,000 cases were reported, it is estimated that 3-4 million people or most every American was infected with this virus during their lifetime. After the implementation and licensure of the live measles vaccine in 1963 the number of cases significantly dropped by 1988 in the U.S...
This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. "(Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2009/2010/2011/2012) Sexual assault is a personal and destructive crime. The effects on individual can be psychological, emotional, or physical. They can be brief in duration or last a long time.
Disparities in health care is an unequal burden in illness and its rate of mortality experienced by minority group when compared with the dominant group (Baldwin, D. 2003). There are causes of health disparities which includes poor education, inadequate financial resources, and minority health behavior and environmental factors. The most common health disparities that have been reported are CVD, DM and Cancers. Research indicated that the minority rates of CVD are common in African American and breast cancer is high in Africa American women than in white population. HIV/AIDS is more than seven times higher in African American than White.
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.
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
There are many contributing components that cause them to be more susceptible to contracting HIV/AIDS. The main cause is through unprotected sex, secondly I.V. drug use, and lastly the occurrence of poverty (HIV and AIDS among African Americans, web, (http://www.avert.org/hiv-african-americans.htm). In the U.S African Americans account for 13% of the population, yet they make up 49% of the HIV/AIDS
Unfortunately, the medical community is still in doubt over the exact cause of schizophrenia and worse still has no definite cure. The use of cannabis is commonly linked as a trigger to this frightening mental illness. In Anne Deveson’s novel, “Tell Me I’m Here” – based on the true story of a mother struggling to cope with her son’s slow deterioration from schizophrenia – marijuana use is mentioned as a possible cause of the illness. Affecting 1.1% of the world’s population, including 285,000 Australians, schizophrenia is the most severe mental illness in the world today. 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia this year alone and, consequently, 10% of those will commit suicide.
are affected by sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia mainly affects African Americans because sickle cell anemia affects one in every 500 African American births in the U.S. Sickle cell anemia is prevalent in many different races throughout the world, but in the U.S. African Americans is more prone to getting sickle cell anemia than any other race. African Americans are more vulnerable to sickle cell anemia because a big percentage of the population carries sickle cell trait in their ancestry line. However, Hispanics are also affected at a rate of one out of every 36,000 births (NHLBI, n.d.). Even though African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to have sickle cell anemia, this does not mean that other ethnicity should not worry about sickle cell anemia.