The lack of prevention interventions that address African American women plays a critical role as to why the epidemic continues to spread. What exactly is HIV? Human Immunodeficiency Virus, better known as HIV is a disease that breaks down a person’s immune system. HIV destroys a person’s CD4 cells. CD4 cells are a specific group of white blood cells that play a large role in helping somebody to fight off diseases.
Through organ transplantation or blood transfusions How will I know if I have an STD? Unfortunately, many people never know they have the virus until they start experiencing common symptoms. What are the signs and symptoms? Signs and symptoms of primary CMV include: Fatigue, weakness, night sweats, prolonged fever, swollen glands or sore throat, loss of appetite or weight loss, muscle aches or joint pain or stiffness, and general feeling of illness, discomfort or uneasiness. How does it affect men and women differently?
. According to U.S. Department of Human Services “When it became clear that HIV was infectious, and that it was potentially fatal, there was not treatment. This led to wide spread stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS”. (U.S. Department of Human Services, 2012) Despite the many prevention and intervention, HIV remains a main importance in public health threats in the United States and the current century. The most challenging part of controlling HIV is the traditional and new medication through public health facilities.
Genital herpes causes painful genital ulcers in many adults that can be severe and persistent in persons with suppressed immune systems, such as HIV-infected persons. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can also cause rare but serious complications such as blindness, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and aseptic meningitis (inflammation of the linings of the brain). Development of extragenital lesions in the buttocks, groin, thigh, finger, and eye may occur during the course of infection. 8 Some persons who contract genital herpes have concerns about how it will impact their overall health, sex life, and relationships. There can be can be considerable embarrassment, shame, and stigma associated with a herpes diagnosis and this can substantially interfere with a patient’s relationships.
The damage the it causes to the organs can be fatal. Around 1.5 million Americans suffer from this disease. This disease also varies widely in it severity. Some people have such a mild form of it, they don't even know that they have it while other can control the flare ups from lupus with over the counter medicines
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a problem that most people do not address in the proper way. Many devastating things happen as a result of this, whether the pain you experience is from the emotional toll that this can cause or the physical abuse that may come along. One aspect that appeared interesting was the effects that IPV may have within the risk of obtaining HIV. Looking through the “Journal of Family Violence” Viol (2009) 24:221-229, I discovered the article “Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Risk-Propensity in Black/ African American Women”, which discussed these concepts. The article defines IPV as any act that is used to control, terrorize, or dominate another, within a relationship (Josephs and Abel).
Addiction has severe negative consequences affecting the addict’s mental and physical well being. Addiction also has numerous allegations for the health of the public, because of substance abuse, addiction is now a major donor to many serious diseases and it can also result in violent behaviors. This article supports my stand point that addiction is a mental illness rather than a bad behavior and creates a solid argument on how addiction takes over the addict’s brain and is the main source of inappropriate behaviors. I can use these examples as reasons why I believe addiction is a chronic brain disease instead of a bad behavior in my research
Lupus, also known as systemic lupus erythematosus, is “a chronic inflammatory disease affecting many systems of the body.” (Mosby, 2013). This disease occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. Lupus can be hard to diagnose because its symptoms are similar to other ailments. No single test can diagnose lupus. A combination of blood and urine test, signs and symptoms and physical exam findings will lead to a diagnosis.
But this can be difficult when there are other issues in the equation and that is the presence of mental disorders. In assessing clients for the proper therapies to administer, it is important to get to the underlying causes for the addiction. If that aspect is not addressed it is certain that they will relapse or yet form another addiction (Recovery Connection, 2012). The relationship of addictions and co-occurring disorders exists on several levels for several different reasons. SUD sometimes form as a way of coping with co-occurring disorders; “statistics show that nearly half of all people with a severe mental disorder are affected by substance abuse, and 29% of all people diagnosed as mental ill abuse either alcohol or drugs.
It is challenging because AIDS progression is less predictable than other diseases such as cancer. The hospice organization needed to redefine palliative care so they could accommodate a more therapeutic interventions for AIDS patients. " One hospice administrator (quoted in Wallace, 1990:13) noted: "For the person with AIDS, hospice is less a gift from God and more the grim reaper … persons with AIDS, reacting to the prejudices against them can initially mistrust the motivations and altruism of hospice programs"(The social impact of AIDS in the United States). Another health care-related challenge is the ADAP which is known as