I read the “The Wisdom of Whores” by Elizabeth Pisani. In this book Elizabeth talked about her work as an epidemiologist and the qualitative research she did throughout the world, specifically Southeast Asian. Her goal was to determine where the spread of HIV was coming from and how to effectively education people on ways to avoid contracting HIV. Elizabeth was an extremely realistic women. She was open minded. She understood that there were people who practice unprotected sex, whether it be with their partner or with someone they payed. She also understood that there are people who abuse drugs. Much of Elizabeth’s research came from talking and interactive with individuals who engaged in the previously mentioned activities. Throughout the …show more content…
This book relates in several ways to microbiology, my future career as a nurse and to the environment. It related to microbiology in that it talked about the various modes of transmission of HIV throughout the duration of the book. Throughout the book Elizabeth emphasized the importance of regulatory screenings. HIV can remain in the latency stage from anywhere to 2-12 years. Meaning you may not know you have it and could be spreading it to others and not even know your do so (Pisian, 313). In the same sense if for instance a men is buying sex and the person he is buying sex from has unprotected sex he could contract HIV. Now, what if this same man had a wife. If he doesn’t know he has HIV he could spread it to his wife (Pisian, 66). Another community issue with HIV that Elizabeth talked about is lack of money. Patients who are using drugs can always find the money to spend on drugs, but the clean needle is the least of these worries. Using recreational drugs is already extremely dangerous, but then when you use a dirty needle it become deadly. Elizabeth felt strongly about preventing HIV, but it really frustrated her when people would willing inject a dirty needle into their body. (Pisian,
For this assignment, I chose to watch How To Survive A Plague, directed by David France. The documentary focused on the aid crisis in the 1980s. The men were introduced to an illness called HIV positive or AIDS. The majority of people who had aids were the gay people when they had sexual interactions with each other and did not use protection. There were a couple of women who were HIV positive as well, but it was to their understanding that their husband was gay.
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During my sophomore year of high school a couple of my peers and I were asked if we wanted to learn about HIV and AIDS and teach our classmates. My answer was a resounding yes. After attending classes several evenings a week and on the weekends for a few months at the florescent
Needle exchange programs are defined as a program, which intended to slow the spread of AIDS among IV drug users. It provides factual information and education for drug users and community so that the use of drugs has a minimal negative impact. (Watson 1991: 14) The first needle exchange programs began to emerge across Europe in the mid- 1980’s and have become famous health strategy around the world. In Canada, NEPs was officially opened in Ontario in 1987 and Vancouver in 1989, and a total of 28 NEPs were operational by February 1993. Today, there are more than 100 NEPs functioning around Canada, most of which earn federal and provincial funding. Needle exchange programs aim to provide injection and encourage the utilization of sterile needle syringes and other paraphernalia among injecting drug u...
The Byzantine Empire was a primarily Christian empire whose reign started in 330 A.D and ended in 1453 A.D with the capturing of the its capital, Constantinople by the Muslim Sultan Mehmed II. In the years following the fall of the Byzantines, many of the Christian basilicas were transformed into mosques for Islamic worship, inspiring many artists to create works that embodied their religious politics. One of the pieces created following the fall of the Byzantine Empire is the painting of Yusuf Fleeing Zulayhka, created in 1488 by Kamal al-Din Bihzad, a famous Persian painter who worked under the patronage of several Persian sultans. The illustration depicts Yusuf’s struggle to escape his master’s wife Zulaykha as she chases him through her elaborate palace in an attempt to seduce him. The representation was made using paint, ink and gold, and features jewel-like colors in order to portray the extravagancy of the palace Zulayhka has built specifically for the seduction of Yusuf (Stokstad 286). This essay will assess three accounts of the story of Yusuf and Zulaykha and the reasoning behind why the narrative is often labelled as a cautionary tale and of what kind.
The purpose of this essay is to indicate how the needle and syringe program in prisons will benefit the Australian government as well as the wider Australian community. As well as the maintenance of NSPs can be maintained while acknowledging concerns of those against it. Needle and syringe programs (NSP) are aimed at intravenous drug users, so as to prevent and limit blood borne diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. These NSP programs help drug addicts by supplying needles and also through referrals and provide education among other services. All these efforts are made to control the spread of blood borne diseases like Hepatitis and AIDS in Australian population with 872 Blood Borne viruses reported 4th quarter 2013(Quarterly Surveillance Report Notifiable Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood-borne Viruses in Western Australia, Government of Western Australia, Department of health period ending Volume11(1) 31st of December 2013). Blood borne diseases being a major concern all around the globe and prisons being a hub for these diseases its best that NSPs are introduced in prisons.
The study conducted by MacNeil & Pauly (2011) focused on the perspective of the people who use the needle exchange programs in Canada. To receive the data from the injecting drug users, the researchers first recruited most of their participants from four needle exchange sites. There were a total of 33 people who participated (23 men and 10 women) in this study. The average age of the participants was 40.3 years of age, for men, the average was 43, whereas for women it was 34 years old. The participants were either homeless or were on government assistance programs. Out of the 33 participants, six of them reported being HIV positive (18%) and 16 reported being diagnosed wi...
It is crucial to understand that, unlike most transmissible diseases, AIDS/HIV is not transmitted through sneezing, coughing, eating or drinking from common utensils, or even being around an infected person. Casual contact with AIDS/HIV infected persons does not place others at risk. HIV/AIDS can be passed through unprotected sex with an infected person, sharing contaminated needles, from infected mother to baby during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding, and through direct exposure to infected blood or blood
In Dallas Buyers Club, once diagnosed, Ron is truly in disbelief that he has contracted the disease. He begins researching the disease, searching for an answer to how he could’ve contracted it. He begins reading, and learns that drug abuse is a way to contract the disease due to the exchange of blood on needles. Ron then remembers when he had sex with a woman who was a drug addict. In that moment, his diagnosis becomes real for him. Ron experiences a violent, angry reaction. Using a needle that has HIV contaminated blood on it is one of the way HIV/AIDS is spread. Sharing needles and syringes widely spreads the disease. Also, the use of drugs can lead to being incoherent and unable to make safer decisions. When under the influence, it is likely that you could make a risky choice of having unprotected sex with one or multiple partners, or using contaminated drug
While alleged sex addictions have existed for many years, they have only recently been accepted as valid excuses for sexual deviancy. Attitudes toward sex addiction in the past offer a stark contrast to how it is viewed today, as the constantly medicalizing society insists on putting everything under the technical microscope. Sex addiction is commonly associated with a person’s inability to control his sexual behavior, implying an abnormally high sex drive and obsession with sex which have negative effects on his personal life (MedicineNet 2007, 1). Rather than breaking down the science behind the disorder, a customary practice in today’s medicalized society, older attitudes towards sex addiction placed it under the same light as alcoholism, where a lack of control and unwillin...
Les Femmes Savantes The Learned Ladies is an astounding play. As each new character enters time transforms characters are bedazzled, enchanted and wigged we know we are sharing the stage with royalty. The women’s gowns are extremely detailed with hoop shirts to make them puffy the men are wearing exceptionally detailed waistcoats. This comical drama is set in the living room or “salon” of the family. This plays plot is focused on one major couples chaotic and forbidden love. The characters are joined by blood and lead by the controlling wife, Philamonte (Maya Jackson) and her weak spouse Chrysale (Edward Brown III). Jackson’s voice is directing with a profound tone that would have the capacity to stop anybody dead in their tracks. It is not
Dinner is expected to be finished by the time the man of the house arrives from work. The men are to sit at the dinner table and wait while the mother and daughter serve them their plate and beverage. The woman is to sit at the table with her husband until he finishes gobbling down his food and then clean up after him. Machismo means that a man is not to lift a finger in anything that regards household work because it could harm his self-proclaimed masculinity. Machismo is the act of telling a little boy, “los hombres no lloran.” It is the act of rejecting fear and vulnerability within a man. It is the act of favoring a man’s wishes instead of a woman’s. Machismo is the fear of letting a man explore his feminine side. However, to Luis Alberto
HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus; this virus can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Accoring to Avert, 2.6 million people became infected with HIV in 2009, there are now an estimated 33.3 million people around the world who are living with HIV. HIV is transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids via sharing contaminated syringes, from infected mother to the child, and sexual contact. Contact with blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk, or saliva that is contaminated with HIV, puts an individual at higher risk for contracting HIV. However, HIV cannot be transmitted by touch, coughing, or by bits from insect vectors.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) first came to light in 1981. There has been a long and arduous global effort on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. HIV is a virus that is spread through body fluids that affect the specific T-cells of the immune system. Without treatment HIV infection leads to AIDS and there is no cure for AIDS. HIV infection can be controlled and the importance of primary pre...
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